Public spending

While a number of private equity firms are hemming and hawing over the prospect of listing funds on Euronext and other exchanges, there are other buyout firms that have listed not a fund, but their management companies. Private Equity Manager has picked out a handful of these publicly listed private equity firms from around the globe ? with assets under management ranging from $1 billion to $10.7 billion and IPO dates ranging from 1960 to 2006 ? and compared their revenues with their operating expenses for the last two reported years.