Which top fund will go bust?

jajaja — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:20:59 -0500

Which top-tier fund do you guess will go bust in the current cycle (or at least miss hurdle)?

Apollo? (There was an article in barrons about how many of Apollo's investments
are under water (linen n things, realogy))
KKR? (a bunch of megadeals in last year)
Silverlake? (if tech LBOs prove more cyclical than thought?)

Sweatshop list

jajaja — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:31:46 -0400

I'm interested in compiling a list of the tier 1/1a/2 shops that are total sweatshops (i.e. work you like a banker). I'm interested to see if any of these actually offers a liveable environment.

Please only post data if you have 1st hand knowledge from someone actually working there...

Confirmed:
Baincap
KKR
Bstone
Carlyle

Confirmed Not:
a few Euro-funds - Cinven, Apax, BC partners

Gender bias

jajaja — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:09:46 -0400

hmm, the salary survey shows that males get slightly more on base (marginally higher ranked employers, I guess, but basically (no pun intended) the same).

However they do get 1.5% or so more on bonus. Is this significative?