Incoming CalPERS board member Margaret Brown dishes out some straight talk on where the giant pension fund needs to shape up.
Read more...Uber’s ever-widening losses confirms Hubert Horan’s thesis that Uber has no credible path to profit absent a radical downsizing.
Read more...Bipartisan support emerges for overturn of CFPB’s payday lending rule; will this prove to be another Cordray fail?
Read more...A new paper by Jeff Hooke and Ken Yook of John Hopkins argues that “smoothed,” as in phony, private equity valuations are misleading.
Read more...A top private equity scholar finds her earlier work on persistence no longer holds, consigning a key industry defense to the dustbin.
Read more...So why did the Sacramento Bee do CalPERS a big favor, particularly when CalPERS is clearly in the wrong?
Read more...It’s taken Uber four months to perhaps cinch a deal with SoftBank, while the spectacularly loss-making company is no closer to making money.
Read more...Local activists are having some success in fighting Big Finance landlords who have become big, ruthless players in rental housing.
Read more...Yet again, CalPERS is trying to use optics and dodgy reporting to cover up for real problems.
Read more...How big a victory is the CFPB’s new payday lending rule for consumers of financial services? And will it hold– as the industry fights back.
Read more...Uber may have bought itself more time with a conditional pact among its big shareholders, but it hasn’t solved its fundamental problems.
Read more...Silicon Valley has an alternative to the IPO…with a 20% haircut compared to Wall Street’s 7%. Should you hang on to your wallet?
Read more...What killed Toys R US? Amazon,Walmart? The numbers say the company’s yet the latest in a string of retail casualties to private equity greed.
Read more...oard candidate Margaret Brown objects to CalPERS’ illegal secret discussions, most importantly, of outsourcing private equity to BlackRock.
Read more...Yet more evidence that the private equity market is overheated.
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