A New Track for Private Equity
Thursday, November 27, 2008 : PermalinkThe major broker-dealers have been decimated, with only Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs remaining independent and solvent.
There are daily fears of hedge funds facing the equivalent of a bank run, as investors scramble to withdraw their cash. Those private-equity firms, such as Blackstone and Fortress, which had entered the public markets to take their positions alongside the investment banks are now trading at massive discounts to their IPO values.
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