Profile of Citi’s Vikram “Boy with the Golden Touch” Pandit
New York magazine has a longish profile of Citi CEO Virkam Pandit titled “The Most Powerless Powerful Man on Wall Street”. The article traces his career including via Morgan Stanley,…
Wall Street Meltdown – Part 2
Here’s the follow up to the funny video titled “Wall Street Meltdown” – set to the soundtrack borrowed from Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. You could see Part…
“Foreign investors to react to new govt’s moves”
In his column for Business Standard, Akash Prakash points why the new govt’s moves, post election, would be a key determinant of foreign fund flows into the Indian market. We…
Capvent China-India Private Equity Summit 2009
ADVERTISEMENT CAPVENT (www.capvent.com), a global Fund of Funds organization and an active investor in China and India is organizing its 2nd Annual China-India Private Equity Summit in Goa from April…
How Harvard tripped on its investments
Forbes has an interesting article on the performance of Harvard Management Co., the subsidiary that invests the institution’s money. Desperate for cash, Harvard Management went to outside money managers begging…
Videos from The Deal’s Distressed Investing Conference
The Deal has an interesting set of videos from its recently organized Distressed Investing Conference in Las Vegas here. Here is a sample featuring Michael Heisley of The Heico Companies…
Abu Dhabi replacing Dubai?
The NYT DealBook has an interesting post on how Abu Dhabi is making bold moves formerly associated with fellow Emirate Dubai. Twin deals initiated out of Abu Dhabi on Monday…
Interview with N. Ram of The Hindu
ContentSutra has an interview with N. Ram, the editor-in-chief of the The Hindu newspaper. The interview is especially interesting in the context of how newspapers – including The New York…
Throwing Good Money After Bad – Illustration
The TARP, in Pictures Publish at Scribd or explore others: Humor Creative Writing tarp Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Venture Intelligence, the leading provider of information and…
Is the PE fee structure set for decline?
In the PE industry, a 2% management fee and a 20% “carry” (the so called and “2 and 20” or 2/20) seemed set in stone. . Until 2008. According to…