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Thinking small.
Australasian Business Intelligence, April, 2002
Apr 04, 2002 (The Economist
ABIX via COMTEX) -- Sir Ronald Cohen is one of the top businessmen in Britain. He learned a lot from his time at Oxford University in Britain and the Harvard Business School in the US. In the 1970s, he co-founded the UK venture capital firm called Apax Partners. In March 2002, Apax is one of the biggest private-equity fund managers in Europe. It has total funds under management, across the globe, of around 12 billion euros. Apax works as a venture capital firm and also works to finance management buy-outs. Cohen has a social conscience and is much admired by the British chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown. Cohen sees venture capital as one way of helping the British economy to boom. In March 2002, Cohen has decided to move into...
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