brian moynihan. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: live from new york city, i'm vonnie quinn, along with guy johnson in london.g markets." private equity at a crossroads. while the market rout is creating takeover opportunities, it is making financing more difficult to come by. so what is the temperature at pe companies? , ceous now is tony tutrone of neuberger berman alternatives advisors. ackman'sback to bill comments that many companies will go to zero. what is the biggest concern for private equity right now in terms of writing down their portfolio companies? -- private equity firms right now is, number one, making sure their companies have the adequate cash and liquidity, so they are being very aggressive working with their companies, making sure they are focused on that. that is really the first and top priority. as far as markdowns to the values, at this time i think it is very hard to predict because a lot of the harm to the businesses has been very recent, just in the last month, especially here in the u.s. but we did a study at neuberger berman looking at the last 2007, 2008, really exploring the raw