Now, particularly for the debt-laden, economically-sensitive businesses that are frequently owned by private equity firms, investors could want steeper discounts, he adds.
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Like any industry sensitive to macroeconomic shifts, credit-market turmoil and volatile equity values, global private equity (PE) has had to navigate through booms and busts over the decades (see figure).