Financial services specialist BharCap is hiring an investment associate: Sponsored

BharCap Partners LLC, a well-capitalized spin-out from Pine Brook Partners, has an opening in its Greenwich, Connecticut headquarters for an investment associate to work on financial services deals. It’s a great opportunity to join an experienced group of five founders in the early stages of building a new private equity shop.

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Is ‘Great Resignation’ hitting private equity?

More than 4 million U.S. workers quit their jobs in Augusta record 2.9 percent of the labor force, according to the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics. And that has us wondering whether the pandemic-driven “Great Resignation” has reached our own industry.

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PE shops hiring one woman for every two men this year: survey

Private equity firms are bringing aboard just about one woman for every two men this year across all roles and levels, according to a large sample of U.S., Canada and U.K. hiring analyzed by Private Equity Career News. It suggests progress on the industry’s belated march toward gender diversity.

The industry, moreover, appears to be making headway in drawing more African-Americans into its ranks. A review of the same sample finds that roughly 5 percent of new hires this year by private equity firms are African-American, with junior hires at 6 percent, mid-level at 5 percent and senior at 4 percent.

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