| Russ Steenberg likens how easy it is to find lucrative energy investments to what happens when a little boy throws a big rock into a pond. "There are incredible numbers of ripples that go out from the splash," the head of BlackRock's $18.8 billion Private Equity Partners said in a recent interview. "Well the energy revolution right now is the rock. The ripples are all of the things in the economy that support the energy revolution, … that provide all kinds of investment opportunity."
That opportunity has the private equity industry salivating. PE funds have raised $157 billion since 2009 to invest in energy, according to data from intelligence firm Preqin. And they're in the middle of raising even more, with nearly $32 billion collected by 33 funds this year.......................................Full Article: Source
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