Private Equity’s New Phase. A silent, seismic shift has dramatically altered corporate ownership and business governance globally. From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. Some of this ownership shift includes failure of firms or acquisition of firms into larger conglomerates (either domestic or foreign), but much of the de-listing shift comes from publicly traded firms becoming private. A major catalyst for this shift has been private equity firms, which take companies private and incorporate them into their own portfolios. The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. While in the first two phases, PE firms turned around the companies they acquired, we believe that in the newest phase the PE firms themselves are also being transformed.
Three Phases in the Evolution of Private Equity Investment How Phase 3 Is Changing PE Companies.
Futures. Forecast. Amp; Company - MGI Home. Domestic Trends - Google Finance. Google Domestic Trends track Google search traffic across specific sectors of the economy. Changes in the search volume of a given sector on google.com may provide unique economic insight. You can access individual trend indexes by clicking on the left-hand navigation. The indexes are currently calculated only for US search traffic.
Note: the indexes measure relative query volume compared to the total number of searches on google.com. Thus, an index that is decreasing does not imply that the total number of searches is decreasing; in fact the number of queries could be increasing, just not as quickly as overall search volume. Interesting Examples Google Retail Index and clothing store sales From the graph below you will see that actual clothing store sales (source) and the Google Retail index has been decreasing over time. Google Auto Buyers Index User searches related to car buying increased dramatically with the launch of the US Government's Cash for Clunkers program.
45 Social Media Trends and Predictions « Jeffbullas’s Blog. As I was writing this article about Social Media trends I remembered a quote that I had come across a while back from Bill Gates of Microsoft… “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.” So when you read the list keep the trends in mind and prepare for a very interesting web world by 2019. Some rather influential Social Media commentators such as Brian Solis’s rather insightful article on his Blog PR 2.0 says that ”social networks will become our Individual online Operating System“ with Twitter and Facebook and Apple amonst others are vying to be your “One” operating system for social networks. The Trend Spotting blog provided the inspiration, along with David Armano’s prediction in a recent post that “Social media will begin to look less social” and kicks off the the first 4 on the list. 266inShare.