Private Equity Why Today’s PE Firms Should Think Like Tree Farmers Private equity’s middle market is slowing down. January 2016 middle market deal numbers were the lowest since 1991, and there…
Advisors Middle Market Weekly Outlook As oil prices continued to fall, most in the industry prepared for a steady stream of mergers and acquisitions. But…
Tightening Credit Mostly Spares the Lower Middle Market: Here’s Why The recent volatility and uncertainty in the financial sector has caused the credit spigot to tighten as wary lenders and…
Advisors Middle Market Saw Fewest January Deals in 25 Years: What It Means Thompson Reuters has been measuring private equity activity on a month-to-month basis since 1978 and, according to recently published research,…
Advisors Middle Market Weekly Outlook Does experience in M&A help you with a future merger? According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, maybe not:…
Advisors Why Social Impact Investing Is the New Frontier As an industry, private equity gets a pretty bad rap in the public sphere. Most people aren’t exactly sure what…
Private Equity Why It’s Time to Expand the Private Equity Investor Pool If PE has a stereotypical individual investor, it’s a 60-something Caucasian male who has been accredited for a while. It’s…
Advisors Middle Market Weekly Outlook A lot has been written about M&A’s monster year in 2015. But MarketWatch reminds us to look at the underlying…
Advisors Middle Market Weekly Outlook Will M&A slow down? Big banks are confident that everything will continue chugging without interruption… but investments are a bit…