At last week's ACG Intergrowth conference, I attended a roundtable discussion on Deal Sourcing as part of the Corporate Development track. My notes follow. To preserve confidentiality, I have labeled as "X:" the comments from all the participants. We had about 30 people in the group, almost all [...continue reading]
T. Boone Pickens Keynote at ACG Intergrowth
I took some notes on T. Boone Pickens' keynote talk at ACG Intergrowth: Wind is going to be a major source of energy for USA. Oil production is flat. We now produce 85m barrels/day. That's going to decline going forward at 8 pct. Wind is priced off the margin, which is natural gas. I receive [...continue reading]
Guidepoint Global acquires Vista Research
I just learned that Guidepoint Global acquired Vista Research. S&P has been shopping Vista for a few years; I always thought that the expert network model was not a great fit with a prominent, large parent. Several other expert networks have been sold (JP Morgan's Primary Insight) or will soon be [...continue reading]
