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

Brian DeChesare

Over the past few decades, growth equity (GE) has gone from an afterthought to a major asset class for huge investment firms. Others would counter that growth equity’s rapid ascent was mostly due to the easy money that persisted between 2008 and 2021. The Top Growth Equity Firms Why Did Growth Equity Get So Popular?

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The Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office: How Banks Organize Their Dungeons

Brian DeChesare

First, note that these terms apply only to investment banks and related finance firms (private equity firms, hedge funds, etc.). Saying that you work in “the front office” of a technology company or a marketing firm makes little sense – or, at least, it means something different from the definitions in this article.

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Skadden Discusses the Impact of Banking System Turmoil

Reynolds Holding

The concentration of uninsured deposits, particularly at mid-sized and regional banks (sometimes as high as 90%), will likely keep liquidity demand elevated and markets attentive to any sign of deposit flight. Continued high interest rates may adversely affect the commercial real estate sector and the mid-sized banks that lend to it.

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