US buyouts will bounce back in 6-9 months: David Rubenstein
Extracts from Knowledge@Wharton synopsis of the Carlye Group founder’s recent speech. According to Rubenstein, the 1970s and 1980s were the “Bronze Age” of private equity, when early buyout deals emerged,…
Sovereign Funds: The BusinessWeek take
Extracts from BusinessWeek’s article on the favorite business/market topic these days: Sovereign Funds The fund managers insist that Western businessmen and politicians have nothing to fear. Al Sa’ad ticks off…
Why Real Estate firms are bidding to become telcos
Businessworld has an interview with Unitech’s Managing Director Sanjay Chandra on this topic. Q: In a sense, telecom is just like the real-estate business. You are capturing a fixed commodity…
Sequoia, UTI Ventures and ChrysCapital win APEX Awards
Sequoia Capital India, UTI Ventures and ChrysCapital emerged as the leading Private Equity/Venture Capital firms in various categories at the Second Edition of the Venture Intelligence APEX Awards. While ChrysCapital…
Can the Nano make a dent in the long term?
In an interview on the global auto industry to Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton management professors John Paul MacDuffie and Mauro Guillen, have struck quite a pessimistic note on how “big big” Tata…
Year of the Pause?
Businessworld has featured an article by Rashesh Shah, CEO of investment bank Edelweiss Capital on his predictions for 2008. A tale of two currencies: the dollar and the rupee. From…
The opportunity in Financial Products distribution
Business Today has an article on the opportunities in distribution of financial products. Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Venture Intelligence, the leading provider of information and networking…
Exciting New Speakers added to APEX’08 Line Up
We are delighted to announce the addition of the following exciting speakers to the already stellar list of speakers for APEX ’08, the Indian Private Equity Summit scheduled for January…
SPACs vs. LBOs
Bloomberg has an article comparing SPACs or “blank check companies” and LBO firms. “It seems as if everybody is raising a SPAC,” David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Washington-based private-equity firm…