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In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that Cerberus Capital Management and other private equity owners of grocery retailer Albertsons are looking to take the company public through a $19 billion IPO. Albertsons is the largest private equity-owned employer in…
In a May 19 opinion piece, Rana Foroohar of the Financial Times highlighted the growing ownership by private equity firms of manufactured home (i.e. mobile home) communities, drawing on the February 2019 report by the Private Equity Stakeholder…
The Associated Press last week published a story on growing investment by private equity firms in manufactured home (i.e. mobile home) communities, citing a February report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, MHAction and the Americans for Financial…
Last Sunday, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ran a long segment on the growing investments by private equity firms in manufactured home (i.e. mobile home) communities, threatening a source of affordable housing for millions of…
The Washington Post today ran a long article, “A billion-dollar empire made up of mobile homes” on how some of the largest private equity firms in the world, including The Blackstone Group, Apollo Global Management, TPG Capital, Brookfield Asset…
Earlier this week, the Washington Post published a long investigative piece on private equity firm Warburg Pincus’ investment in Mariner Finance, a subprime installment lender: “Mass-mailing checks to strangers might seem like risky business, but Mariner Finance occupies a…
An article from Huffington Post, “Prestige Predators: Private Equity Cashes In On Payday Lending” features our new report Private Equity Piles into Payday and Other Subprime Consumer Lending, put together in collaboration with Americans for Financial Reform and…
