If you consider this on a supply & demand basis, the supply of capital has actually increased considerably. The ramification from this is that there's a lot of sitting with the private equity firms. Dry powder is basically the money that the private equity funds have actually raised but have not invested.
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It does not look helpful for the private equity companies to charge the LPs their expensive costs if the money is simply sitting in the bank. Business are…
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