Michael Fisch on Private Equity Funds
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Michael Fisch, CEO and co-founder of American Securities LLC. He is a managing member of the general partners of the American Securities Partners' series of private equity funds and a member of the investment committee of AS Birch Grove. He was previously a partner in two private equity funds, a consultant in the Paris office of Bain & Co., and worked in the mergers and acquisitions department of Goldman Sachs.
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| 0:28.0 | This is podcast I have an extra special guest Michael Fish is co-founder and CEO of American |
| 0:47.0 | securities. They're one of the older private equity firms around been been in business since 1994, they run over $27 billion in assets. |
| 0:59.0 | If you're at all interested in what it's like to run a private equity firm that doesn't just buy up |
| 1:06.2 | companies and parcel them out but rather partners with management keeps the |
| 1:11.4 | teams in place on the companies they buy and just facilitates the |
| 1:17.8 | improvement of the company how it operates how they're able to bring expertise |
| 1:22.1 | both in along with capital and whatever |
| 1:25.5 | necessary debt is as well as a network of experts then I think you're going to |
| 1:30.9 | find this to be a fascinating conversation. |
| 1:34.0 | There aren't a lot of companies and there aren't a lot of people that have the historical |
| 1:40.0 | perspective on the rise of private equity like Michael Fish does. I found this |
| 1:45.5 | conversation to really be intriguing and I think you will also with with no |
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