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0 Favorite PE Firm? 18 10y
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+18 Reason for extremely high IRRs 6 10y
0 Transition from Operations to investment / portfolio management 0 10y
+15 CFA - Currently working in an IT department 9 10y
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0 Could Use Some Guidance for MM Banker 3 10y
+10 Lateraling as Senior Associate 6 10y
0 Business Sense exercices 4 10y
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+31 CPP IB Private Equity Internship vs Jefferies IBD 11 10y
0 Transitioning from Buy-side Debt Shops to PE 5 10y
+28 Seeking Advice on How to Get into PE without an IB or Mgmt Consulting Background 17 10y
+57 Private Equity --->>> Business School? 35 10y
0 Fund Placement Internship - Worth it? 1 10y
0 Pre-MBA placement to business school 2 10y
+8 Private Debt prep 2 10y
0 High frequency trading -> PE? 1 10y
+24 Google APM vs McKinsey as first job to start company 8 10y
+12 How to move up the profitablity ladder 0 10y
+205 Why You're So Easy to Replace 58 10y
+3 IRR Attribution / Decomposition Analysis 0 10y
+8 GE EFS 2 10y
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0 Private Equity "Financial Analysis" salary help (2 yrs experience ) 0 10y
+12 Screening in CIQ for firms acquired via LBO - historic 2 10y
0 terra firma Graduate Programme 2015 11 10y
+8 Mithril Capital? 11 10y
+30 Why should sponsor care about previous leverage of target company? 11 10y
+95 Where is the industry going for young professionals? 24 10y
0 Carlyle Group Fund Management Advice 2 10y
+13 Tanking a Small Cap Company private ($ Rev. ~$50m-$80m) 2 10y
+15 Technical Question: Cash-on-Cash Return LBO model 1st year 4 10y
0 Forest Hills Capital Management ???? 6 10y
0 Recruiters and Preferences 0 10y
+56 The Most Outlandish Office Politics Story, Pt 2 43 10y
0 Apple Iphone 6s / Samsung Galaxy S6 edge ( Buy 2 get 1 free ) 0 10y
+102 Q&A - London IBD to megafund PE 77 10y
+12 Hedge Fund Acquisitions and Valuations - KKR Takes 24.9% Stake in Marshall Wace 1 10y
+24 What's in a name? Of Umlauts, The Alphabet and World Peace! 2 10y
+56 Private Equity 2/20 business model 55 11y
0 Post MBA associate to PE FoF's / Secondaries? 1 11y
+43 Some notes from a few weeks in Mid-Market PE 28 11y
+26 JD/MBA trying to break into PE 8 11y
+22 PE Fund Performance: Anyone Can Hit Top Quartile Once, but Consistently? 8 11y
+27 Questions from a top PE fund interview 10 11y
+32 Friend of mine wants to build a next-generation film finance company 9 11y
0 PE part-time gig interview prep 0 11y
+15 Fund of Funds (FOF) return on investment 2 11y
0 Pay for Sector Focused PE firms vs. Banking 7 11y
+23 Second-tier PE funds 17 11y
+32 The Saga of Caesars 5 11y
0 To Invest or Not Invest - Help Deciding Offers 3 11y
0 Comp comparison for deal team vs Ops/consulting team 1 11y
+45 Moving from HF to PE 47 11y
+8 Credit Analysis in the FIG or CF group 3 11y
0 How are Pre-MBA PE Internal Consulting/Ops Associates viewed Post-MBA 3 11y
0 RJR Nabisco LBO: financial specifics, entry and exit? 7 11y
0 Cerberus Capital Management: IB program? 7 11y
0 Medley Capital structure loans and utilize debt/equity investing 9 11y
+9 Blackstone BAAM or FT position 5 11y
0 loan amortisation/principal amount reduction 0 11y
+27 Circular references in LBO models 29 11y
0 In-house Operational/ portfolio company management career track in Private Equity? 0 11y
0 Turning impossible to possible--Finding a PE internship in 2 weeks, any advice? 0 11y
0 Changing Industries(?) --> Buyside 4 11y
0 What kind of internships do PE firms look for? 3 11y
0 Does pre LBO debt matter when screening for potential LBO candidates 12 11y
0 Best Books on distressed debt investing and M&A 2 11y
+20 Which PE firm to intern for? 15 11y
0 Top SF MM PE Firms? 9 11y
0 Family and friends round for a non-perishable specialty drink product: What questions to ask? 0 11y
0 Megafund Question 1 11y
0 Megafund Question re exit opp discussion 0 11y
+14 I sourced a deal - how do I get paid 20 11y
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