There aren’t many hotter firms to work at than private equity giants Apollo Global Management. Within Apollo, the biggest division is in credit management and within that, the growth area is in “direct lending”. In terms of closeness to the […]
Author: Stéphane
The Buyout Brigade
A decade after a punishing global recession—and amid concern that public markets’ extraordinary froth is at last beginning to subside—the space in which private equity operates seems especially roomy and comfortable. Taking full advantage is Goodmans, the renowned Toronto transactions […]
Why Blackstone Cofounder Steve Schwarzman Donated $188 Million To Support The Humanities And AI Ethics
Blackstone cofounder Stephen Schwarzman is no stranger to big gestures. In 2013, he gave $100 million to start Schwarzman Scholars, a Rhodes-like scholarship that partners with Beijing’s Tsinghua University. Two years later, he pledged $150 million to his alma mater Yale to […]
A Manufacturing Minnow, Israel Rises As Industrial Technology Power
TEL AVIV, Israel—For a country that doesn’t make cars, Israel has one of the world’s hottest automotive technology industries, with globally recognized names like Mobileye (bought by Intel for $15.3B), WAZE (acquired by Google), Moovit (with over 480M users), as […]
Comment passer de la banque au private equity, par une ex-associate de chez Goldman Sachs
Vous souhaitez donc quitter la banque et travailler dans le capital-investissement ? Inutile de dire que cela arrive souvent, mais pas à tout le monde. Si vous travaillez pour une banque et que vous souhaitez passer sur le buy-side , […]
Millennium Management poaches another Goldman Sachs veteran
Millennium Management continues to pick on Goldman Sachs as it looks to fill seats left vacant by rampant poaching from ExodusPoint, the new hedge fund led by former Millennium star trader Michael Gelband. The latest win for Millennium is former Goldman Sachs managing […]
Talks at GS: Joanna Coles and Storytelling in the 21st Century
When Joanna Coles became editor-in-chief of women’s magazine Marie Claire, she aimed to transform the pages for a new generation of readers. “I thought, well, women are interested in mascara and the Middle East, why can’t we have both […]
Key Driver of Japan’s Economic Growth: Chinese Tourism By Goldman Sachs
China’s rising middle class has made Japan a top travel destination, providing a lift to Japan’s inbound spending over the past decade. With concerns rising about slowing Chinese growth and a weakening yuan, we sat down with Goldman Sachs Research’s […]
Et les grands gagnants sur Amazon France sont… les marchands chinois
En leur offrant une logistique optimisée, Amazon permet aux producteurs de l’empire du Milieu de se transformer en des marchands imbattables sur les prix qui trustent les meilleures ventes. “La moitié des articles vendus sur Amazon proviennent de PME comme […]
The Financial Crisis Killed Hedge-Fund Performance
I have long been interested in hedge funds and their managers. We have regularly looked at issues such as changing fee structures, higher-than-rational expected returns, general cost and performance issues, and why investors keep shoveling money to the funds. My Bloomberg News colleagues Katherine […]