Research Zeitgeist: Top Posts This Week
Visitors to Research Recap in the last week appear to have had hedge funds, venture capital and private equity on their minds. Our most-read post, Hedge Fund Investors More Rational than Rash, belied the conventional wisdom that hedge funds are short-term-focused slash-and-burn artists.
Next most popular was Venture Capital Investment in Clean Tech Companies Surges, showing that VC sees money in being environmentally responsible.
More good news for the PE sector came in at Number 3:
Private Equity Businesses Outperforming Public Companies.
But lest the “New Power Brokers” get too self-satisfied, a note of caution crept in at Number 4, The New American Capitalism – Lucrative But Fractious, which warned of some of the harsher consequences of unbridled Anglo-Saxon style capitalism.
Before you come to the conclusion that all our readers cared about was the financial sector, the fifth most read post this week, US Firms Slow to Quantify Climate Change Risks, examined how S&P 500 companies are trailing their global counterparts in developing plans to deal with risks from climate change.
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