PE4FAMs Blog

The Private Equity for Families Blog provides insight, information and opinion for successful families who want to include in their portfolios private equity or direct investment in privately-held businesses.

New Tools of Your Trade

A career in financial services has been a wonderful place to be for the last 40 years. Powerful macrotrends like 40 years of falling interest rates, Moore’s law with the doubling of computing power every several years, the emergence of a sophisticated credit economy, a plethora of worldwide investable capital and an almost error-free infrastructure […]

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American Vacation Has Limited Choices

Chevy Chase immortalized the American vacation with the Griswold family’s cross-country journey to Wally World.  That was the travel scene in the 1980s before Covid-19, inflation, forest fires, thermal inversions, flash floods, passport processing snafus, sold out National Parks, double digit lodging taxes, shortages of hospitality workers, road construction delays, crime in major cities, summer

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