Capital continues to flow between all major stock exchanges around the world. According to research conducted by McKinsey, “the world’s financial assets ranging from equity, fixed income, and other instruments now total more than $140 trillion and are on pace to reach $214 trillion by decade’s end.”
Putting in perspective, it accounts now for more than three times the current global GDP. Deeper financial markets promote a more efficient allocation of capital and risk and offer households and businesses more choices for investing savings and raising capital, respectively.
According to current economic trends including the abundance of capital in financial markets, it is most likely that the number of private equity deals will overpass last year’s record year. Today BusinessWeek reports on the fifteen largest Private Equity firms. These firms have assets under management with a value ranging from $17 billion to $49.7 billion.
Subsequently, Red Herring published an interesting article on private equity in the Tech sector “Will private equity change tech? Or will tech change private equity?“, The Economist devotes a story on “The booming buy-out business” and “The real risks of private equity“.
UPDATE @ February 10th: Morgan Stanley’s Journal of Applied Corporate Finance published articles on “Public vs. Private Equity“(PDF) and “Private Equity and Its Import for Public Companies” (PDF).
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