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Understanding Private Equity: What You Need to Know

Strategy Driven

This can cover situations such as growing a business (which requires ‘growth capital’ for expansion or development); financing operational changes such as restructuring to make the business more profitable; financing acquisitions of other companies; or delisting a public company in order to give it private status.

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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole.

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The Dark Side of Efficient Markets

Harvard Business Review

In the natural evolution of markets, as markets become more efficient, they turn from being use-driven to expectations-driven — like equities, real estate, or derivatives based on both. Rising rents for a piece of real estate may be expected to rise forever. Economy Finance' That dark side has not gone unnoticed.