Private Equity is Slightly Broken
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Private Equity can't find the exit.
The PE game has a standard playbook: Investors give money to firms, which buy controlling stakes in oft-struggling companies. The target companies are restructured, often with some elaborate new debt pile on their books, and then sold off at a profit, a nice portion of which is distributed back to the PE firm's investors.
Source Fool.com
