SUPPLY SIDE

Private equity levels rising … slowly

THEY have been portrayed as wolves and sharks and one Sydney newspaper even made them out last week to be funnel web spiders. But the truth about private equity firms is that they have been good for Australia’s mining technology and service sector in recent years, and particularly a vibrant band of small-to-medium size companies surfing the global mining investment wave into new markets and previously uncharted enterprise-value territory. <b><I>Supply Side</I> by Richard Roberts*</b>.