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Private equity and the mark-to-market myth

The story of a sudden energy bankruptcy.

By: Jamie Powell

The ‘Fool’s Yield’ of private credit

All that glitters isn’t gold.

By: Jamie Powell

Calpers and the ‘illiquidity premium’

Outta site, outta mind.

By: Jamie Powell

When rent-seeking gets shameless

  1. The entire economy is Fyre Festival, crypto edition
  2. Spotted in NYC: a very bad Twitter ad
  3. Turns out WeWork’s future is bright
  4. When risky zero-sum behaviours prop-up growth
  5. Will artificial intelligence destroy poker?
  6. Marketing in the Fyre Festival economy
  7. Uber becomes modern art
  8. Enron’s Glassdoor page
  9. Vaudeville, in pictures
  10. TEEIFF: confirmed by third parties
  11. The security and prosperity paradox, shoplifting edition
  12. Vaudeville, now with real celebrities
  13. How a guy called Colin Platt became the richest person in the world
  14. Why security tokens are categorically and absolutely not crypto tokens
  15. Today in TEEIFF
  16. The UK's used car write-off conundrum
  17. GMO's Montier on the rise of the dual economy
  18. Just because it's digital doesn't mean it's green
  19. Kylie Jenner is the world's youngest 'self-made billionaire'
  20. Deliveroo announces “click and collect”

The rights to the “.org” registry have been bought by a private equity company. 

By: Jemima Kelly

Private equity runs amok

Institutional investors are all-in on private equity, but is it the good deal many believe it is?

By: Guest post

How Lloyds got burnt by a for-profit education deal

  1. Unite: a test case for corporate rent
  2. Shut down the internet, student housing edition
  3. The private education risk premium
  4. University debts and “restrictive” tuition fees
  5. Why are private school fees so high?
  6. A Plymouth student property proposition
  7. Educational exports: the story so far
  8. A casualty in the education marketplace
  9. Connecting an Australian private equity buyout to Swansea University
  10. How a £100m student accommodation scheme went wrong
  11. Oxford & Legal & General, the real estate play
  12. Alpha Plus is still losing money
  13. Students as a commodity, Sino-US trade war edition
  14. What the bond market thinks about the prospect of a university crisis
  15. How the forces of finance fund MBAs
  16. Introducing the shadow education sector
  17. Why US investors are betting on European student accommodation
  18. The Alpha Plus pension problem
  19. The rise of educational forgery
  20. For sale: one luxury Georgian townhouse

Greenwich School of Management received over £150m in government loans.

By: Thomas Hale

A casualty in the education marketplace

  1. Unite: a test case for corporate rent
  2. Shut down the internet, student housing edition
  3. The private education risk premium
  4. University debts and “restrictive” tuition fees
  5. Why are private school fees so high?
  6. A Plymouth student property proposition
  7. Educational exports: the story so far
  8. How Lloyds got burnt by a for-profit education deal
  9. Connecting an Australian private equity buyout to Swansea University
  10. How a £100m student accommodation scheme went wrong
  11. Oxford & Legal & General, the real estate play
  12. Alpha Plus is still losing money
  13. Students as a commodity, Sino-US trade war edition
  14. What the bond market thinks about the prospect of a university crisis
  15. How the forces of finance fund MBAs
  16. Introducing the shadow education sector
  17. Why US investors are betting on European student accommodation
  18. The Alpha Plus pension problem
  19. The rise of educational forgery
  20. For sale: one luxury Georgian townhouse

GSM London goes into administration.

By: Thomas Hale

Calpers goes all in on private equity

“We need more of it, and we need it now.”

By: Jamie Powell

Are we thinking about debt in the wrong way?

Are we thinking about debt in the wrong way?

By: Thomas Hale

Private equity – tech's best kept secret

Guest post: Private equity – tech's best kept secret

By: Guest writer

Overheard in the long room: rewarding returns

Overheard in the long room: rewarding returns

By: Jamie Powell

Guess the company, Howard Marks edition

Guess the company, Howard Marks edition

By: Jamie Powell and Robert Smith

How do you solve a problem like Wonga loans?

How do you solve a problem like Wonga loans?

By: Thomas Hale

Monday, 10th September 2018

By: Bryce Elder

Friday, 7th September 2018

By: Bryce Elder

Wednesday, 8th August, 2018

By: Bryce Elder

Tesla going private? We have questions...

  1. Tesla’s sufficient management
  2. Tesla and the question of change
  3. Tesla and the number 500,000, again
  4. Mamma Mia...
  5. The question of Tesla’s cash to be collected
  6. Elon versus the evil shorties
  7. Mad Man breaks window
  8. Tesla’s mysterious income
  9. Tesla/ Germany: 'glorious success' or Schnapsidee?
  10. Tesla: Rorschach test
  11. Tesla’s Q3: what really matters
  12. Tesla, meet wall
  13. The great Tesla solar roof distraction
  14. Volkswagen/Tesla: errr
  15. Walmart sues Tesla over dodgy solar service
  16. Tesla’s fake buyout, one year on
  17. Tesla’s second quarter, charted
  18. Tesla’s latest security offering: cars
  19. FT Alphaville ordered a Tesla Model 3
  20. Tesla executives aren't sticking around for a record quarter
Tesla going private? We have questions...

By: FT Alphaville

Schrödinger's default [updated]

Schrödinger's default [updated]

By: Alexandra Scaggs

PetSmart's covenant mystery

PetSmart's covenant mystery

By: Alexandra Scaggs

Monday, 11th June, 2018

By: Bryce Elder

PetSmart gives shares of its growth engine to PE sponsor

  1. Hope floats
  2. It’s the ‘Indian IT will be fine’ hope that kills you
  3. That Palpatine, he’s got some good ideas despite all the dark side stuff
  4. It’s the ‘trade will be fine’ hope that kills you
  5. It’s the hope that kills you
PetSmart gives shares of its growth engine to PE sponsor

By: Alexandra Scaggs

Further reading

By: Jamie Powell

Please don't tell individual investors to buy leveraged loans

  1. When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) free
  2. Michael Milken: financial innovator
  3. Oh no, the death-techers are coming
  4. Bitcoin’s “halvening” won’t boost its price 
  5. CEO of JPM, recipient of $bns in state aid, bashes socialism
  6. Trump just made a joke about negative rates
  7. The Witcher is not a freelancer
  8. The ITV M&A fantasy
  9. Blockchain, all over your face
  10. Baillie Gifford: pot kettle black
  11. Is Facebook’s status as the bête noire of political advertising justified?
  12. The Eurosystem might have a fatal flaw. But it’s not this
  13. Venture capital for the ‘forgotten’
  14. The troublesome Trump inside trading claim
  15. The US economy is not recession-proof
  16. Hedge fund bro gonna hedge fund bro
  17. What do women want? Some crypto flavoured mansplaining, apparently.
  18. The Fed’s wishful thinking on inflation
  19. Dalio and Diddy: when genius collides
  20. State-backed crypto is a contradiction
Please don't tell individual investors to buy leveraged loans

By: Alexandra Scaggs

'Some of the worst covenants that we’ve ever seen'

'Some of the worst covenants that we’ve ever seen'

By: Alexandra Scaggs

Monday, 21st May, 2018

By: Paul Murphy

Criminal charges filed against former Constellation Health execs

Criminal charges filed against former Constellation Health execs

By: Alexandra Scaggs

Tom Wolfe's best take

Tom Wolfe's best take

By: Alexandra Scaggs

Further reading

By: Jamie Powell

Thursday, 12th April, 2018

By: Bryce Elder

Why CBS would low-ball Viacom

Why CBS would low-ball Viacom

By: Sujeet Indap

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