Monthly Archives: December 2009

30 Dec, 2009

Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts: Can the buyout kings at KKR learn to be like Buffet?

Edited by Leslie Pratch; written by Pamela Mearsheimer This week Emily Thornton of Business Week reports on the new activity at KKR. You may remember them from a long time ago. For those of us who were reading the business news back in the 80s, we all remember the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco. That [...]

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29 Dec, 2009

Private Equity 101

Edited by Leslie Pratch; written by Pamela Mearsheimer For those of you not familiar with private equity, here’s some background to help you understand the next post bout KKR. Private Equity is essentially equity investments that are not publicly traded. Equity investments are stocks, which represent shares of ownership, and debt investments are bonds, which [...]

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28 Dec, 2009

What’s Going on at Dubai World?

Edited by Leslie Pratch; written by Pamela Mearsheimer. Wikipedia describes Dubai World as “an investment company that manages and supervises a portfolio of businesses and projects for the Dubai government across a wide range of industry segments.” Well said.  Dubai World is new, existing only since 2006, but even in that short time it has [...]

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26 Dec, 2009

Why Dubai Matters

Edited by Leslie Pratch; written by Pamela Mearsheimer What’s going on in Dubai? The week, Business Week put Dubai on its cover, subtitled, “Why It’s No Mirage.” On December 14, 2009 Dubai received a lifeline from its neighbor, Abu Dhabi. How did it get to the point where it needed a lifeline? In late November, [...]

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21 Dec, 2009

Cap & Trade 101

Edited by Leslie Pratch; written by Pamela Mearsheimer Back when Henry Ford was cranking up the assembly line and Pittsburgh’s steel mills were going full force, the air was still relatively clean and no one dreamed of the environmental fix we’d be in now. After years of spewing all kinds of fumes you shouldn’t breathe [...]

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