This week we continue our conversation with Paul Peterson, a managing director at Wind Point Partners. Wind Point Partners is a private equity investment firm that with a strategic focus on facilitating leadership transitions by partnering with top caliber executives to acquire middle market businesses with a clear path to value creation. Since its founding in…
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Banks vs. the Non-Banks/ Hurdles: Legal, Cultural, and Logistical/ Opportunities and Challenges/ A Path to Success/ Outlook for 2016…and Beyond
The Bank of England doesn’t often follow the ECB. During the financial crisis and its aftermath, the Bank was relatively quick to cut interest rates and implement QE. The ECB was still hiking rates in July 2008, and didn’t start QE until 2015. But the eurozone’s central bank could lay claim to beating its UK…
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Call it an ironic twist. An actor named David Harbour, portraying Achilles in Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida” in Central Park last week, ruptured his Achilles tendon in a fight scene. Mr. Harbour later tweeted, “I’m so method.” No word whether critics considered his final performance a stretch. Speaking of drama, the Fed elected not to…
With the Fed more likely to push rates in September, Libor rose more quickly last month than comparable Treasuries. Sources: U.S. Department of the Treasury/FRED
US MM Transaction Sizes Indicate Concentration in the Core In the first half of 2016, the median size of buyouts in the US middle market declined slightly to $128.3 million, a slide of just over $11 million. Given PitchBook’s methodology of classifying the core middle market as transactions sized between $100 million and $500 million,…