He could also join a private equity operation.

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Driving brand equity with an online publishing operation borrows from traditional marketing and media disciplines, but in practice has already become a highly specialized and evolving skill.

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As private equity firms become more public in the months and years to come, hopefully adequate steps will be taken to explain the methodology and operation of private equity in a language that is easily understood by investors and savers.

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The good news: With the equity market picking up, even Merrill's market-making operation showed gains in the first quarter.

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The operation, E-Quest Partners, is a tiny yet ambitious private equity outfit he launched a year ago with his Venezuelan brother-in-law, Alejandro Zubillaga.

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Tax laws, specifically those which encourage leverage while discouraging the accumulation of equity capital on balance-sheets, are perhaps the greatest deterrent to its effective operation.

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