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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

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Many of these firms use debt to fund deals, and they complete bolt-on acquisitions for portfolio companies. Growth equity firms could invest in any industry but tend to be skewed toward technology and TMT , with some exposure to consumer/retail , healthcare , and financial services. Developing new products or services.

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The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: The Start of Great Financial Crisis 2.0?

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Look at any financial model for a bank, and you’ll see that loans – not deposits – are the key top-line driver. Insufficient/No Hedges – Rather than hedging their entire MBS portfolio with interest-rate swaps, the bank had… no swaps at all as of the end of 2022 ( oh, and no Chief Risk Officer, either ). Is It a Bailout?

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The Full Guide to Healthcare Private Equity, from Careers to Contradictions

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They do not invest in risky biotech startups attempting to cure cancer (at least not within their traditional PE portfolios). Upper-Middle-Market and Middle-Market Firms with Healthcare Teams – It’s the same idea, but they’re smaller and do smaller deals. in biology. If you have an M.D.

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Private Equity in China: The Worst of Both Worlds?

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As with PE in many other emerging/frontier markets, it’s more like growth equity than traditional roles at middle-market PE firms and mega-funds in the U.S. poor stock-market performance, slowing growth rates, and an aging population. This may change due to factors like the “decoupling” with the U.S.,

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Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Full Guide to the Industry, Recruiting, Careers, and Exits

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The firm uses passive and active strategies, often deviating from its reference portfolio based on the macro environment. You’ll also spend time supporting existing portfolio companies and reviewing their results. and supporting your Portfolio Manager ’s ideas and requests.

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Renewable Energy Investment Banking: How to Make Greens by Going Green

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Per FTI Consulting , solar, wind, and “portfolio” (mixed asset) deals account for 60% of renewable M&A activity in the U.S.: So, even if you’re advising entire companies, you must still be familiar with asset-level modeling and valuation and how an entire portfolio works. What Do You Do as an Analyst or Associate?

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Metals & Mining Investment Banking: The Full Guide to Ground Zero for the Energy Transition

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Diversified Miners – These companies have a wide global portfolio of mines, and they extract, produce, and distribute just about every metal in the two categories above. One example is Steel Dynamics, which we feature in our main financial modeling course.