Tag: private equity

  • Chance of Nothing Happening?  The Power of Joint Probabilities

    Chance of Nothing Happening? The Power of Joint Probabilities

    Yesterday, as I was reading a book about Blackstone, the famed asset management company, something caught my attention.  It was about how one of its executives describing evaluating risks in a potential deal: ” You say there’s a chance there’s a major terrorism event blowing up an airline, but that happens once in twenty years,…