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Do Private Equity Firms Manage Balance Sheets, or Just Manipulate Them?

Private Equity [PE] firms often are described as nothing more than financial engineers - according to their detractors, they buy a firm, load it up with debt, pay out recapitalization dividends, and leave lifeless, over-levered shells.

Or do they?

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15Jul2008 | Nick | 0 comments | Continued
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How to tackle spiraling Oil prices

Crude monster is here and we cannot deny that. We saw what happened in Chennai. We know the demand supply gap in Bangalore. It’s time we face reality and react. As Jack Welsh wrote ” The art of leading comes down to one thing: facing reality, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality”.
Now, […]

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15Jul2008 | Nick | 2 comments | Continued
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Top 10 Currency Trading Tips

Foreign exchange is only one of the many asset classes you should be considering as part of a balanced investment portfolio. Forex trading is not suitable for every investor, so if you are committing all of your financial resources to forex trading, be sure you are fully aware of the risks and rewards of doing so, because commitment to one asset-class is not recommended

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17Jun2008 | Nick | 3 comments | Continued
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Making Acquisitions During Recessions

With the markets slipping, there has been a lot of speculation if we are going into recession. And that set me thinking - Is it possible to take advantage of a recession? In Businomics, the author wrote about AirTran (AAI), which left the 2001 recession in a far stronger position than it entered it. […]

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23Mar2008 | Nick | 2 comments | Continued