Gen Z May Be The Biggest Disruptor Yet
Many financial firms still debate ways they can harnes [...]
Not everything always goes the way we planned. Companies aren’t perfect, and neither are their results. Even when businesses do everything right, losses beyond their control can be incurred. Products may be defective, a major customer might go under, or the cost of raw materials could increase. From time to time, even great companies—public and […]
Delivering Bad Financial News
Not everything always goes the way we planned. Companie [...]
Last week, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf’s testimony before the US Senate Banking Committee brought to a head long-standing illegal activity at his bank, and further exposed a seriously misguided corporate culture. Stumpf admitted his employees had created some two million fake accounts to meet sales targets, at the expense of their customers. Stumpf was […]
Reputational Responsibilities of Brand-Name Investors
Last week, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf’s testimony befo [...]
As private equity has matured over the past decade and expanded, so too, have the communication responsibilities that investor relations professionals must manage for their general partners. The rise of social media, increased compliance requirements, and a growing array of media platforms have created new communication responsibilities for the industry’s IR professionals. Whereas reputation management […]
The Times They Are a Changin’, For IR Pros
As private equity has matured over the past decade and [...]
If the evolution of Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) spanning more than a century was indicative of the future, there would be little hope that one day we’d see ESG frameworks (or forms of it such as CSR or SRI) become a benchmark for successful private equity investing. But, with Limited Partners (LPs) increasingly in the […]
Private Equity, the darling of institutional investors, has finally graced the Great White Way, but the new drama titled “Dry Powder” hardly rolls out the red carpet for the industry. The Public Theater’s online promotion for the play (named after an industry term for un-invested capital) describes buyout executives as “the people shaping, and skewing, the […]
Private Equity’s Achilles Heel
Private Equity, the darling of institutional investors, [...]