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Dear Valued Partner:
Welcome to Equity Insights - our quarterly newsletter.
The articles contained in this edition illustrate examples of how we can leverage GE’s industry expertise, our Access GE program and GE’s commercial reach to generate superior equity investment returns for our portfolio companies and our partners.
I hope you will find this content useful and insightful.
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 Economic insights with Rob Podorefsky, Interest Rate Strategist for GE Capital
In this video, Rob presents a 2010 U.S. economic outlook focusing specifically on the potential for sustainable economic growth, the importance of maintaining a positive feedback loop between the financial markets and the real economy and
a review of our main concerns for what might interfere with a favorable growth environment.
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 Equity hosts Energy and Growth Capital event
On December 3rd, GE Capital, Equity and GE Energy Financial Services co-hosted the Energy Outlook and Growth Capital Investing event at the New York Academy of Sciences. The session was held to share GE's operating perspectives in the energy sub-sectors of water, renewable power, solar, wind and oil and gas with key external relationships.
The event featured business leaders from GE Energy Financial Services, GE Energy platforms, GE Water, GE Oil & Gas and a key portfolio customer. The agenda included a panel discussion on Capital Formation Strategies, with representatives from private equity firms, investment banks and EFS.
More than 100 people from private equity firms, investment banks, and GE participated in thought-provoking exchanges on a variety of energy related topics.
For more information please contact us at equity@ge.com.
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 GE Global Research helps our customers grow
GE Global Research is made up of 10 global technology organizations with more than 100 labs, all focused on leveraging our scientific breakthroughs and innovations across multiple GE businesses. Each organization crosses geographic borders where people from the US, Europe, China and India collaborate and build on each success.
Beyond the strong partnerships that scientists have with GE’s business divisions, GE continues to look for the best partnerships with its customers, industry leaders, government and academia to enhance the company’s technology capabilities. Last year, GE scientists at Global Research were engaged in more than 300 research collaborations around the world.
> Learn more about Global Research
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 GE helps a key portfolio company drive cycle time reduction
Access GE and Energy Lean improvement teams joined forces in the 3rd and 4th quarter to help TPI Composites, a supplier of wind turbine blades, and a key investment in the Energy Financial Services and GE Equity portfolios, achieve lower manufacturing cycles at TPI's Iowa facility.
In two separate Lean Events, the GE teams partnered with the TPI operations team to focus on cycle time reduction of the blade molding cycle. Reduction of the molding cycle is important because it is the critical path process that paces the overall manufacturing cycle and allows TPI to achieve increased shipping volumes with the same fixed and human resources.
As a result of the team's work, the molding cycle was reduced by about 30%. This reduction, coupled with TPI's and GE Energy's related work, will position TPI to meet or exceed its shipping commitments to GE and other customers in 2010 and beyond. For more information, please contact equity@ge.com. |
 GE Capital Insight Series Webinars
These thought provoking online sessions, focused on economic assessments, cost management tools and strategies and Industry insights are available to you at no charge. They are designed to share GE best practices, tools, resources and insights to help our strategic customers and business partners be more productive and help address issues impacting their bottom line.
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Indices Watch
 CFOs Expect Capital Expenditures to Grow By Nearly 9% in 2010
A recent survey identified an up-tick of CFO optimism toward both the U.S. economy and their own companies.
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 IPO Calendar Is Short on Sure-Shot Deals
Investors geared up for a celebratory bash of IPOs in 2010 are instead looking at a pretty lame gathering of U.S. deals so far this year.
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 Dealmakers Express Guarded Optimism About M&A Outlook
Survey findings reveal M&A challenges and opportunities; strategic and distressed investors to lead the way.
> Learn More
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