Private equity: Year of the vulture
CNN Money
On a spring day at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Key Biscayne, Fla., Michael Klein, Citigroup's chairman of institutional clients, took the stage at the bank's ninth annual private equity conference. In front of pension fund investors, hedge fund managers, and private equity dealmakers including the Blackstone Group's Steve Schwarzman and the Apollo Group's Leon Black, Klein flashed a series of newspaper headlines on the giant screens.
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