The last quarter push to the November elections is fully upon us and, while the market seems to be holding at robust levels of participation, it’s clear that all sides of the financial and political community are waiting for the eventual party outcome to be determined in order to plan and execute business with a long-term perspective

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The pool of one sort of “traditional” assets – the stocks of publicly listed U.S.-based companies – is shrinking. Companies that once would have gone public are staying private. According to a recent report by Morgan Stanley Asset
Management, Public to Private Equity in the United States: A
Long-Term Look, young companies have a less voracious appetite for public capital than they used to, and the capital-raising needs they do have can be satisfied privately, so they elect to “stay private longer than did the companies of prior generations.”

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