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Harvard Burger School

Fast food franchising has become popular refuge for MBAs, here’s why.

By: Sujeet Indap

Three charts that pierce the private equity hype

How the secret sauce of an industry is whisked

By: Jamie Powell

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

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

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

By: Thomas Hale

A casualty in the education marketplace

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

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. FT Alphaville takes a Tesla out for a spin
  2. Tesla’s cash to be collected: redux
  3. Congratulations Elon, you’ve earned it
  4. Elon, u ok hun?
  5. Tesla: taking a step back
  6. Elon Musk the insurer
  7. Tesla’s coronavirus ‘competitive advantage’
  8. Elon Musk promised ventilators. These are BPAP machines.
  9. Elon doesn’t get it 
  10. Tesla’s quarter-end push has a pandemic problem
  11. Elon Musk’s SolarCity suit deposition: the highlights
  12. Tesla’s sufficient management
  13. Tesla and the question of change
  14. Tesla and the number 500,000, again
  15. Mamma Mia...
  16. The question of Tesla’s cash to be collected
  17. Elon versus the evil shorties
  18. Mad Man breaks window
  19. Tesla’s mysterious income
  20. Tesla/ Germany: 'glorious success' or Schnapsidee?
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. Nikola/Hindenburg: gravitational spin
  2. Is GMO’s Montier right on ‘absurd’ US stocks?
  3. ‘Commerzbank has confirmed its top position in German equity research, sales and corporate access’
  4. Once again Kodak pivots, and the share price explodes
  5. Blockchain: it really is a tough sell
  6. Sterling has not become an emerging market currency
  7. Jeff Ubben/ESG: flip flop
  8. Is this the nuttiest risk factor of all time?
  9. The tech start-up that wants to “validate” the female orgasm
  10. It’s a great time for conspiracy theories to thrive
  11. Let’s call Trump out, but let’s get our facts straight too
  12. Today, in efficient markets
  13. We can’t blame all the indirect health damage on the lockdown
  14. Weirdly, blockchain can’t help combat coronavirus 
  15. Leading ‘UK’ start-ups want a handout too
  16. China’s PMI print doesn’t mean much
  17. Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curve
  18. NMC Health: presented without comment
  19. When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) free
  20. Michael Milken: financial innovator
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

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