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Buy-out groups aim to improve their image

The private equity industry intensified efforts to present a positive image and counter criticism that a boom in leveraged buy-outs is creating social and economic risks.

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The sacking of one of the most senior executives at Chuck Prince’s Citigroup continues to split opinion in another difficult week at the world’s biggest financial services company


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