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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Private equity buyout bingo

Will the private equity market continue to run as red hot as it has been?

William Hester, CFA of Hussman funds presents a fascinating analysis where he shows that the risk-to-reward ratio is thinning for private equity buyouts.

As Herb Stein (Ben Stein's father) is famous for saying, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." I have no idea when the buyout binge by private equity will peter out, but I can guess that interest rates going up will have something to do with it, and that it won't be a very fun time to be invested in riskier stocks and bonds.

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