by meridith dennes | Sep 27, 2026 | Buy Side, Exit Opportunities, Lateral Recruiting
For most of the past decade, leaving banking was treated less as a decision than as a milestone. Most bankers exited after two years for private equity, growth equity, private credit, hedge funds, corporate development or other roles on the buy side. The appeal was... 
by meridith dennes | Mar 5, 2026 | Buy Side, News
Blue Owl Capital: Private Credit's Reckoning Moment ℹ Blue Owl stock under pressure, down ~60% from Jan 2025 peak · Blackstone reports elevated withdrawal requests from lending fund · Hedge fund Rubric Capital warns of asset-liability stress in private credit · ... 
by meridith dennes | Feb 22, 2026 | Buy Side, Exit Opportunities, Lateral Recruiting
Private equity owns a record 13,000 U.S. businesses. But it’s sitting on 31,000 companies valued at $3.7 trillion that it hasn’t yet been able to exit. For two decades, private equity delivered on its core promise: taking illiquid risk in exchange for... 
by meridith dennes | Feb 1, 2026 | Buy Side, Exit Opportunities, Lateral Recruiting
You didn’t sacrifice two years in banking just to be disappointed. Here’s what nobody tells you about PE—and the alternative paths that might actually get you where you want to go. The Unspoken Truth About Private Equity You did everything right. You... 
by meridith dennes | Jul 27, 2025 | Buy Side, Exit Opportunities, Interviewing
While Wall Street banks rush to implement new policies to prevent analysts from jumping to private equity, Lazard Inc. is taking a different path: they’re simply not going to. CEO Peter Orszag made the comments during the firm’s Q2 earnings call, where he... 
by meridith dennes | Jul 21, 2025 | Buy Side, News
The battle for top talent in finance has reached a new level of intensity, with Citigroup becoming the latest major investment bank to implement aggressive measures against private equity firms’ early recruitment tactics. The bank’s new...