Back in late September, when David Bonderman lost $7bn on an investment in Washington Mutual bank made by a private equity consortium headed by his firm TPG, a senior executive at a rival house sent him a sympathetic note. Both the industry and the world needed a reminder that private equity was not infallible, he argued. Before that time, "we made it look too easy", this executive added.
去年9月下旬,TPG領頭的私人股本財團對華盛頓互惠銀行(Washington Mutual)的投資虧損了70億美元。當時,TPG創辦人龐德文(David Bonderman)收到了某對手公司一位高階主管發來的慰問信。這位高階主管在信中提出,需要提醒業界和全世界,私人股本並非不會犯錯。他補充說,先前「我們讓賺錢顯得太過容易了」。
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