Andre J. Peschong

Impact investing is a term that had been thrown around in the financial world for quite some time. What does it really mean?  Impact investing means investing to generate positive environmental or social return along with financial return.
I needed to understand better this new market and how it is growing, changing and establishing itself in [...]

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This post is different than most you have read on my blog as it is really like a Seinfeld episode, a post about nothing, but there sure is a lot to say!  There are so many newsworthy issues occurring on a daily basis that it is truly hard to pick up on all of them, [...]

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Hedge funds grew in popularity in the years after the Enron Scandal (2002) raising record amounts of capital and all purporting to have that special trading methodology or investment discipline that would score higher than average returns based on their posted or stated benchmark indicator.  Endowments, insurance companies, institutions, municipalities were all clamoring to make [...]

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The new regime is now taking over and what a job Obama has in store for him.  In fact, this is probably one of the most volatile handovers of power we have seen in our recent history.  Having said that, what happens in Obama’s first 100 days of office will set the tone for the [...]

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I think the conference title speaks for itself!  Actually, this will be the 5th annual micro cap stock conference for the “Big Dog.”  This is a very unique concept in the world of financial conferences.  The Big Dog Conference is an invite only conference specializing on the microcap arena of publicly traded companies.  This will [...]

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I just attended the LAVA

Ghost Town divx

(Los Angeles Venture Association) conference which was held at a very unique, old school hotel that was completely refurbished called the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. It is interesting because over the years LAVA has had its moments when the who’s who of finance showed and deals were getting done [...]

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KKR’s decision to go public through a non-traditional method at this juncture in the market may be seen by some financial pundits as potential suicide but I am of the other camp and believe that the way KKR is structuring the transaction is brilliant. 

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When the internet bubble popped back in March of 2000 there was a lot of lost footing and confusion, including a bunch of shell shocked venture capitalists, private equity guys and, of course, investment bankers who were walking around dazed, asking one key question, hoping to rescue their future… “What is the next big thing?”
When [...]

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Why are private equity investors sniffing around the Lehman Bros. deal?  The unlikely match is because private equity funds currently have all the money.  Year over year for the last three years private equity has had record breaking capital raises.  This is not just a domestic phenomenon, but a global one.  Private equity has become [...]

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Time for some shameless self promotion!  In case you didn’t catch them on Google or your news feeds, I was just interviewed for two new articles. Check them out at:

No Slack With SPACs Eyes Wide Shut video (BloggingStocks.com)
Depressed Stocks Open Door to More Takeovers (DowJones MarketWatch)

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