Private Equity

Things are escalating quickly for the folks behind StraightPath Venture Partners.

Rationalizing the $600 million hole in banks’ bottom line.

But StraightPath’s got promises! Lots of promises.

Everything the regulators says is true, apparently, but only to a not-illegal extent.

And he would like Cardinal Health to cut it out. Let him explain how.

A half-size bonus is arguably preferable to a pink slip. Arguably.

The carried-interest loophole lives! The Democrats’ climate-tax compromise maybe not so much.

Luckily for the magazine, at least someone probably is.

The people’s hedge-fund manager has had it with the carried-interest loophole.

And regret even more to acknowledge it’s got about as much chance as every other bid to kill it.

Summer weather is heating up but the market for IPOs remains cold.

Where others flee, Barclays boldly doubles down.

And for all of their much-vaunted power, it seems they’ll need the SEC’s help to do so.

‘Cuz it certainly can’t be due to his nonexistent investing prowess.

There may be less than meets the eye in the SEC’s case against p.e. firm StraightPath Venture Partners.

Self-dealing may be good business, but it also may be unsustainable.

Because this years’ is gonna be a lot more modest, and feel even more so.