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Public Binge Predicted for Private Equity

Carlyle chief: All the big players will do IPOs within 5 years

By J. Kelman,  Newser User

Posted Apr 25, 2007 2:09 PM CDT

(Newser) – Private equity giant Carlyle Group will likely go public within five years, its co-founder said at a conference yesterday. David Rubenstein predicted a sea-change for the industry, as fund founders cash out before they retire, the FT reports.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if all the major firms were public four or five years from now," Rubenstein said. But there were naysayers, the Times of London notes. "When you're public, people don't feel you lost their money but that you stole their money," Leon Black, founder of Apollo Group, told the conference. "Who needs it?"

Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein
Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein   (nndb)
The monitor above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 13,000,  Wednesday, April 25, 2007 in New York. The Dow Jones industrial average shot past 13,000 for the first time, powered by better-than-expected corporate earnings that boosted investors' confidence in...
The monitor above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 13,000, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 in New York. The Dow Jones industrial average shot past 13,000...   (Associated Press)
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