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How to Start a Private Equity Firm – and Why You Probably Shouldn’t

Brian DeChesare

If you search for “how to start a private equity firm” online, you’ll find results that range from useless to tangentially useful to occasional nuggets of real wisdom. Starting a private equity firm is a bad decision for ~95% of people who work in the finance industry. How Does It Work?

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The Financial Sponsors Group: Masters of the Financial Universe, or Exit Opportunity Mirage?

Brian DeChesare

According to some, you do almost no modeling or technical work in this group, and it’s one of the easier jobs in IB, similar equity or debt capital markets. But if you read other accounts, FSG runs models, Analysts get hands-on technical work, and the hours could be longer and more stressful because your clients are private equity firms.

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

The effect of impact investing in the inclusionary and exclusionary paths is through the stock price , with the buying (selling) in inclusionary (exclusionary) investing pushing stock prices up (down), which, in turn, decreases (increases) the costs of equity and capital at these firms. in the 1998-2010 time period to 5.95

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M&A Terms Every Business Owner Should Know

Class VI Partner

You may hear Asset Value used in place of Book Value, but this is not precisely correct because Book Value includes not only Asset Value, but also subtracts the value of liabilities of a company. It is typically the highest risk/highest potential return portion of a company’s capital structure.

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Power & Utilities Investment Banking: How to Turn Yourself into an Electrified ESG Warrior

Brian DeChesare

Traditionally, the sector was viewed as a defensive play for investors who wanted stable dividends and no drama. Companies tend to offer high, stable dividend yields, and they finance their massive capital expenditures primarily with debt , with the highest leverage ratios of any industry outside of financial institutions.

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