0 Fair Compensation? 9 3y
+28 Placement Agent Fees? 12 3y
+12 Take MM offer or go for UMM/MF? 2 3y
0 Why do people move to smaller funds? 1 3y
+8 Small vs large PE fund 8 3y
0 IRR Underwriting Hurdles 1 3y
+3 Growth PE => HF? 3 3y
+7 Should I get MBB experience before jumping into PE? 1 3y
+19 Biden Cap Gains Tax 11 3y
+21 Advice for breaking into a Megafund 8 3y
+12 LMM PE (<500m) pay vs IB pay 12 3y
0 Individual fund performance 2 3y
+5 LMM PE Return Attribution 4 3y
+4 Return of public equity? 3 3y
+7 Leveraged loan investing? 18 3y
0 Regional IB -> Newly formed Family Office 1 3y
+29 Canadian PE (MM) 7 3y
+39 Stop Using FoF as a term and No its not Inferior 11 3y
+16 HF vs PE 2 3y
0 Quilvest Private Equity 4 3y
0 Starting at ~$1-3B PE shop with 2-and-out program, should I be worried about staying in PE? 5 3y
+11 Financial modeling for ports investment decision 2 3y
0 How Has WLB in PE Been for Associates in NYC? 3 3y
0 How good does a time constrained model with investment memo need to be in PE interview process? 1 3y
0 Joining an overstaffed fund at the VP level 1 3y
+10 Thoughts on growing with a no name small-mid cap private equity firm with $170m in aum 4 3y
+11 Canada PE Shops that hire out of UG? 5 3y
0 Cricket News said that as the global coronavirus pandemic delayed the start of September 1 3y
+22 AUM vs Capital deployed vs Fund size 5 3y
+27 MM Funds with Equity and Credit Strategies - Good or Bad? 9 3y
+29 LMM PE Compensation: Is This Compensation Package Market? 15 3y
0 Let’s talk PE comp 0 3y
0 PE case study 1 3y
+3 Typical negotiation timeframe with PE firms for a director role 0 3y
+3 Negotiating salary with Pr 0 3y
+18 LDN Offer Choice 13 3y
+28 LBO case study help 15 3y
+13 How to leverage an offer? 3 3y
0 Buyside offer of Non-bank loans investment, is it private debt secondary or structured finance? 4 3y
+91 PE Career Earnings over $50 million by 50? 31 3y
0 Regulatory And Compliance Risk 0 3y
+12 Solving for purchase price of private company 3 3y
+12 LBO Technical Questions 0 3y
+23 Leverage relevance for LBO target 12 3y
0 Tikehau Capital? 1 3y
0 Small Firms that are Top Heavy (50% Partners) 0 3y
+3 Renovo Capital in Dallas 0 3y
+8 US PE firm in London vs NYC 2 3y
+16 PE Fund IRRs (Including Thoma Bravo's net IRR of 45% in 2008) 3 3y
+14 Model Test Question 2 3y
+41 Axium Infrastructure? 16 3y
+1 add on acquisition LBO 4 3y
0 Historical Private Equity Cashflows 1 3y
+37 Thoughts on Northwestern Mutual Capital? 18 3y
+15 Ungeared vs geared IRR 6 3y
+9 FoF opportunity 1 3y
0 LPs asking for gender and ethnicity of investment teams? 3 3y
+12 Want to work for a smaller fund, but still want to be "heavy hitter" 1 3y
+2 Bonus Payout from New Buyside Job 1 3y
+9 What would you consider a typical variability in IRR between base and optimistic? 0 3y
+13 Graduate private equity job at lower middle market fund 1 3y
+11 Private credit firm with 25%+ unlevered IRR?! 11 3y
+13 PE Direct Secondaries? Feedback appreciated 2 3y
+3 FT Options After 2021 PE Undergrad Internship 2 3y
+7 div recaps and irr 15 3y
+6 UMM vs MM vs MF PE 9 3y
+16 Not a great cultural fit at firm - does it matter? 2 3y
+84 European Private Equity Associates backgrounds 17 3y
+4 Views on Court Square Capital 5 3y
+36 Technical interview q 15 3y
+42 Roll-up acquisition PE questions 14 3y
+10 What to do when key metrics are missing in a CIM? 3 3y
+21 Corporate Finance at a PE 4 3y
+3 PE analyst superday help 0 3y
+28 Why is an IRR of 40% bad if investment period is small? 14 3y
+12 The Optimal Environment for PE 1 3y
+62 LBO Case Study Analysis 66 3y
+14 Small/mid cap private equity offer or tiers 2 M&A advisory Consulting company offer 2 3y
+24 MM vs. MF track? 0 3y
+36 Mining Private Equity Firms 26 3y
+407 Is Private Equity a Low-IQ Approach to Finance? 160 3y
+78 Q&A: MM PE (~$1.5B AUM) Associate in Asia 29 3y
+9 Outsourced Back Office? 4 3y
+6 Levine Leichtman Capital Partners 3 3y
+29 Blackstone Investor Day Takeaway 8 3y
+548 Why I Left PE & Switched to the Public Markets 78 3y
+14 Private markets valuation analyst - pathway to PE/Banking? 3 3y
+9 Does anyone have any info on CAAT Pension Plan? 1 3y
+23 PIK Interview Questions 8 3y
+38 Advice for Asset Management Breaking Into Private Equity 20 3y
+45 Working Capital considerations in LBO 10 3y
+18 Senior PE associate comp in London? 6 3y
+5 What’s the difference between Ares Management Corporation and Oaktree Capital Management? 1 3y
+8 Interview: How do Dividend Recaps impact Returns? 3 3y
+6 Greenoaks Capital Insights? 1 3y
+242 Anyone regret LMM/MM? 37 3y
+248 Is PE existentially fucked? 48 3y
+38 I recruited on-cycle too early 13 3y
+6 Comp Expectations 5 3y
+15 MM PE Intern vs BlackRock ACS, which offer to take? 15 3y

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