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Reuters.com - Exclusive: Boston-based Bain Capital nears $3 billion fundraising close

sincityfinancier wrote 1 hour ago: Jeffrey Allen (ir) has sent you this article. Personal Message: Exclusive: Bain nears $3 billion fun … more →

Tags: Finance, Financial Topics and Trends, Bain, Boston, Buy-Out, Capital

Reuters.com - P/E firm Cerberus raises $2.61 billion private equity fund

sincityfinancier wrote 1 hour ago: Jeffrey Allen (ir) has sent you this article. Personal Message: Cerberus raises $2.61 billion privat … more →

Tags: Finance, Financial Topics and Trends, Cerberus

New Mountain Loses Managing Director Alok Singh

Richard J. Anderson wrote 4 hours ago: Alok Singh, a long-standing executive of New Mountain Capital, has left the private equity firm. Rea … more →

Tags: recent-moves, USA

Norwegian sovereign wealth fund investing $4b in India

Richard J. Anderson wrote 4 hours ago: Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, Government Pension Fund Global, is investing $4 billion (Dh14.7 bill … more →

Tags: International 2, LP News, Real Assets, Clean Energy, Energy, Europe, hires, India, Logistics

Reading List: Herbalife Shorts

axooms wrote 5 hours ago: Finance is rarely entertaining.  But when it is, it’s a doozy.  Last year the activist hedge f … more →

Tags: Economic, Reading List

AIFMD Guidance from France

dariancs wrote 7 hours ago: Translating the guidance is proving an enormous labor, so we are linking to the original French here … more →

Tags: AIFMD, Hedge Funds, private placements, aif, aifmd, Alternatives, Compliance, DEPOSITARY, ESMA

Canada Pension Fund Giant Extols Benefits of the Long-Term View

Richard J. Anderson wrote 10 hours ago: CPP Investment Board has a mandate to identify investments that earn returns over many years to help … more →

Tags: International 2, LP News, Real Assets, activist, Canada, Gold, Pension, Precious Metals

Private equity deals

Dan Primack wrote 10 hours ago: The Blackstone Group has offered to acquire Pactera Technology International Ltd. (Nasdaq: PACT), a … more →

Tags: Private Equity Deals, Term Sheet

GE Ventures Officially Opens for Business in Silicon Valley

Colin Hudson wrote 10 hours ago: Like a lot of big corporations have of late, such as Comcast Corp . and Ford Motor Co ., General Ele … more →

Tags: GP News, "big data", Corporate, startups, technology, Venture Capital

Discovery Metals Tests Interest in African Copper

Colin Hudson wrote 10 hours ago: Botswana may be a tiny player in the global copper mining industry, but a long-running — and, … more →

Tags: International 2, Real Assets, Africa, Australia, China, Frontier markets, metal

Family Office Trends to Keep an Eye On

Richard J. Anderson wrote 10 hours ago: Despite the record-breaking DJIA and rising corporate profits, the volatility of public securities i … more →

Tags: LP News, direct investment, family office, USA

Warburg Reaps $1.8B From Targa Resources Investment

Colin Hudson wrote 10 hours ago: Energy investments are all the rage these days among private equity firms–and Warburg Pincus … more →

Tags: Real Assets, GP News, Energy, Oil Gas

BlackRock’s takeover of MGPA confirmed

Colin Hudson wrote 10 hours ago: The addition of Asia- and Europe-focused private equity real estate firm MGPA by the world’s largest … more →

Tags: GP News, Real Estate, Asia, Europe

Investors spy China opportunity amidst “unprecedented shortage” of new capital

Colin Hudson wrote 11 hours ago: Already one-third of the way through 2013 and the situation in China’s private equity and capital ma … more →

Tags: International 2, Asia, China

Market strategy: Amid fuel price hike

idxstock wrote 15 hours ago: Short-term pain, long-term gain Near-term profit taking on the cards for the market Ahead of the gov … more →

Tags: Fundamental, advertising, Apple, astra international, economic growth, Economy, Indonesia, mass rapid transit, target price

In potential sea change, some family offices are becoming competitors to private equity firms

familyofficenews wrote 16 hours ago: In many years, family offices, which consist of a staff of professionals who manage the assets of on … more →

Tags: Investments, insights, regulation, Family Matters, Opinion, HNW/ & UHNW, Family business, Family Office, family office

Is SAC Capital evolving into a Family Office?

familyofficenews wrote 17 hours ago: Bloomberg News reports that billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen is said to be considering a d … more →

Tags: Investments, insights, Opinion, HNW/ & UHNW, Family Office, USA, family office, 2013, Wealth

Private Equity Waves Drown Billabong with $960M

2misi.com wrote 22 hours ago: Legendary surfwear retail brand, Billabong is drawing near to being transferred to a private equity  … more →

Tags: Business News, Billabong, paul naude, Takeover

Original investor of Skype (sold for $8.5B): Silver Lake raises $10.3 billion private equity fund

sincityfinancier wrote 1 day ago: Jeffrey Allen (ir) has sent you this article. Personal Message: Silver Lake raises $10.3 billion pri … more →

Tags: Finance, Financial Topics and Trends, alibaba, Buyout funds, Dell Computers, ecommerce, Internal Rate of Return, Irr., Microsoft


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