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INDUSTRY UPDATE: Health Care – December 2022

December 2, 2022
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Introduction: Health Care As much as we might all prefer to see Covid-19 in the rearview mirror, it is not yet behind us. Coupled with increased infection rates from flu, the winter of 2022/23 will probably see resurgent strain on health care providers as they struggle to manage a lack of trained...

Hundreds of Happy Executives

November 28, 2022
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Hundreds of Happy Executives (Despite Unprecedented Upheaval) Anyone who reads or listens to the news knows how turbulent this year has been. But if you look at how our clients are landing, it simply goes to prove that there is always movement in the executive market—regardless of macroeconomic circumstances...

Private Money in Your Future – Part 4 (Be Part of The Bigger Picture)

November 13, 2022
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Because Private Equity money is ill-understood outside the industry, we have dedicated three articles to the topic. Explaining the fundamentals of Private Equity (PE) (Read Dry Powder), Recounting who is who in the industry with particular focus on the underlying portfolio companies (where the true...

Private Money in Your Future – Part 3 (Life After Landing)

November 6, 2022
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Private Money in Your Future – Part 3 (Life After Landing) Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) are not immune to macroeconomics. Fundraising has indeed declined in 2022, however, PE & VC are incredibly resilient. “Higher rates have finally breached the engine room of the PE dealmaking...

Industry Update - Private Equity and Venture Capital

INDUSTRY UPDATE: Private Equity & Venture Capital – October 2022

October 30, 2022
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Introduction: Dry Powder and a few Questions about Private Equity and Venture Capital The last two years have been extremely strong in terms of fundraising for PE and VC firms. One measure had them sitting on as much as $1.4 trillion in fresh capital (dry powder) as of mid-year 2022 (See source.),...

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Private Money In Your Future – Who’s Who and What’s What

October 16, 2022
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Frankly, not everyone can work for the biggest players in the PE/VC industry, nor is that particularly advantageous career-wise, however, let us get our bearings by looking at three different ways of ranking the top companies in this field before we look under the hood: 1) funds raised, 2) assets...

Private Money in Your Future- Dry Powder

October 10, 2022
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If you do not already work for a company with connections to private equity (PE) or venture capital (VC) firms, you probably will at some point before you retire. We say this because many of today’s most important firms already have PE or VC shareholders. Take the venerable example of Sequoia Capital which...

INDUSTRY UPDATE: Financial Services – October 2022

October 3, 2022
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Financial Services Market Outlook As we define it, the Financial Services Market comprises banking, investment advice and management, investment banking, insurance, accounting, and associated financial services. One source says this about the industry’s prospects: “The global financial services market...

The Upside of Downsizing

September 18, 2022
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I remember the first time I was fired. Shock. Devastation. Existential dread. I felt I had worked so hard for that company and delivered so much value, to be fired for what proved to be political reasons was so unfair. But it happened anyway. I felt I was a downsizing tragedy. Well, In Hindsight,...

INDUSTRY UPDATE: Manufacturing – September 2022

September 11, 2022
Chairman's Blog, Industry Updates

Introduction The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that the overall manufacturing output in the US returned in Q2 2022 to the pre-Covid 19 peak of Q4 2018. (See Graphic below and Source). Buttressing this generally positive result is further evidence that the number of “establishments” (essentially,...