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Why They’re in Private Equity and You’re Not

June 20th, 2008

From a Blackstone IPO redux in Bloomberg:

“For a Blackstone insider, that IPO was perfectly timed,” said Ryan Lentell, an analyst at Morningstar Inc. in Chicago. “For a common holder, the timing was the worst.”

Long time readers know that when these types of firms went public, I thought management were sending the clearest of all signals that the market had disconnected from reality if they were willing to sell.

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