That same day, CommonWealth and its underwriters on a planned equity offering had been planning an investor lunch at the posh Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan.

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It sits atop several big political and social fault lines of our day: trade, technology, growth, education, planning versus chaos and equity versus salary.

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At my firm, we serve affluent high-net-worth individuals, families and businesses with financial planning, asset management and private equity services.

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Credit Suisse Securities is planning over the next two years to increase Japanese equity analyst staffing by over 40 percent, to a level equivalent to that before the 2008 crisis.

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Many others, such as Providence Equity Partners, have either invested in media businesses already or are planning to.

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