Private equity continues to dominate the investment headlines
Private equity continues to be in the news with ever bigger deals. Freescale, a semiconductor business, yesterday priced almost $6bn of High Yield bonds (the largest deal ever) to help finance the $19bn acquisition. The group of private equity firms wrote an equity cheque for $7bn which demonstrates just how much money they have been raising if they can invest that amount on one deal. Will it continue?
In a word, yes. Private equity has continued to raise cash and only earns a fee when it is invested. They can take advantage of the liquidity in the loan and bond markets to arbitrage the fact that bond yields are lower than earnings yields.
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