Quote from wall30:
Some info on Brett A Hickey
http://www.aegiscapitalgroup.com/team.php?teamID=1&v=f
Mr. Hickey is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Aegis Capital Group LLC
Prior to co-founding Aegis Capital Group in 2003, Mr. Hickey was an investment banker with the Insurance and Asset Management division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc
Select Investment Banking Transaction Experience:
$16.1 billion reverse triangle merger of The St. Paul Companies, Inc., Nuveen and Travelers Property Casualty Corp
$1.4 billion 5, 10 and 30 year note offerings for Travelers Property Casualty Corp
$1.3 billion initial public offering for Eaton Vance Tax-Advantage Dividend Income
$1.2 billion follow-on common equity offering for The Hartford Financial Services Group, Ltd.
$1.1 billion municipal bond trust offerings for BlackRock in 3 state tax advantage funds and one national fund including greenshoe and follow-on preferred share offerings
$1.0 billion 10 and 30 year senior note offerings for Prudential Financial, Inc
$600 million mandatory convertible equity units offering for The Hartford Financial Services Group, Ltd.
$369 million initial public offering for Franklin-Templeton Limited Duration Income Trust
$287 million in auction rate preferred funds for Neuberger Berman in New York, California and National fund offerings
$281 million initial public offering for Nuveen Diversified Dividend & Income Fund
$151 million common equity offering for W.R. Berkley
$150 million series F trust preferred securities offering for Lincoln National Corporation
$100 million series B preference shares offering for Renaissance Holdings Ltd.
Are many of you really that gullible to think that this guy did all those deals by himself? Wow.
He stated himself he worked at an IB for a year and left. He was entry level analyst or associate at best. He worked on the deals as part of the group, which were managed by the head guys. For all you know, the most he ever did for them was run papers between the Managing Director and VP. Actually, it's pretty much a sure bet he was doing the grunt work along with 10-12 others, because that's how it is in the industry.
Understand a few things:
1) It's Just Television
2) Some guy jumping from quitting IB after a year into starting up a P/E fund is very unusual. Whatever the story is, I would love to hear and it's very curious to me that he is not talking about it.
3) Something (aka common sense) tells me that this man is the real founder of the fund. http://www.aegiscapitalgroup.com/team.php?teamID=12&v=f
Mr. Brett just got in good with him, obviously impressed him and is just piggybacking. Somehow it's not surprising that Todd is avoiding the spotlight of WSW while Brett is embracing it.
One more time.
IT"S JUST TELEVISION!
