#PrivateEquity @WSJ #DOWJONES @FINSider @REsilient_ent What do +PrivateEquity firms do?

 

Shanny Basar in New York

23 Feb 2012
As Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has thrown private equity into the spotlight, US radio show Planet Money aired an episode this week looking at what buyout firms actually do and analysing one company that was bought by Bain Capital, the firm Romney co-founded.

+PrivateEquity +WSJ #DOWJONES +FINSider  +REsilient_ent What do +PrivateEquity firms do?
During the campaign, Romney has probably been surprised to find his private equity record attacked by fellow Republicans such as rival Newt Gingrich who accused the industry of loading up portfolio companies with so much debt that their survival comes under threat."



So after a month of research, Planet Money broadcast an episode this week asking what private equity firms actually do and whether they are “job destroying monsters” or “knights in shining armour riding in to save troubled companies”.

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