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Sep 16
23m 13s

Private equity’s public reckoning

Financial Times & Pushkin Industries
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With interest rates high, private equity has had a harder time finding investors … and making money. To solve this problem, the industry has found novel ways to avoid closing their funds. But time may be running out. Today on the show, Katie Martin and Rob Armstrong talk to the FT’s US private equity editor Antoine Gara about how private equity is going to have to turn its homework in eventually. Also they go long Robert Redford and long advisory firms that specialize in cleaning up messes made by private equity. 


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