It’s a private equity world out there
FOR MANY OF OUR READERS, THE WORDS ‘private equity’ may be most well associated with the business their company is conducting, private equity investing. Although that is true, private equity has grown to encompass a bigger meaning, especially in a world where private equity is literally everywhere you go.
There are traces of private equity in seemingly almost every detail of our daily lives. Some of us will wake to KKR-owned Sealy mattress, while others will prefer the rather well-used Simmons (it has been...
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