According to the Harvard study, homeowners with at least 20 percent equity spend an average of 22 percent more on improvements than homeowners with lower equity levels.
Analyst Young believes record liquidity and favorable financing have supported 2007′s equity spending spree.
(See: "GE Selling Plastics Unit to Saudis").. Analyst Young believes record liquidity and favorable financing have supported 2007′s equity spending spree.
"Private equity firms spent most of last year helping their portfolio companies," said Randi C. Lesnick, a partner at the law firm Jones Day.
In 2000, Fenway Partners, a closely held private equity firm, spent $55 million to acquire a stake in the company.
The amount the private equity industry spent on lobbying in 2015 was more than triple what it had spent a decade earlier, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Private equity firms spent millions buying large and small apartment complexes in working-class neighborhoods, many of them with rent-regulated tenants.
Around the world, venture capitalists and private equity investors spent $4 billion on energy-smart technologies like storage and efficiency.
In all, private equity firms spent roughly $160 billion in 567 technology deals, according to data from Pitchbook.
Private equity firms spent $128 million to buy two venture-backed companies in the most recent quarter, down significantly from the same period last year when private equity firms bought seven companies for $260 million.
Seven years ago, Los Angeles billionaire Haim Saban and four private equity firms spent $13.7 billion to acquire Univision, the nation's dominant Spanish-language media company.
