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...
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...
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...
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...
Goldman Sachs is rolling out a retention program aimed at keeping junior talent from defecting to private equity firms, the latest move in Wall Street’s escalating war over young bankers. The investment bank will offer select interns a guaranteed path from...
Bottom Line Up Front: Goldman Sachs has deployed the nuclear option in Wall Street’s war against private equity’s aggressive recruiting practices. The investment banking giant now requires new analysts to certify every three months that they haven’t...
