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ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS

Within this ever-changing global financial services and economic landscape, both institutional and retail investors strive to identify the best sectors and niches in which to invest. These alternative investments include alternative energy, top decile-ranked hedge funds, distressed real estate, certain luxury and entertainment companies, financial technology, and compliance/regulatory. This topic covers the alternative investment trends.

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Report: Biggest companies of private-equity firms perform worsemore

A report from Moody's shows that the 10 largest companies owned by private-equity firms performed worse than others in...

Cleantech Group report: COP15 doesn’t mattermore

December’s global climate negotiation talks in Copenhagen are expected to be positive for the cleantech sector, even if...

IOSCO publishes report on private equity conflicts of interestmore

...of a consultation report regarding conflicts of interest within private equity firms. An IOSCO report on private...

peHUB First Readmore

(my bet is a private equity firm, but I’m thematically biased) ... financial regulation, including issues that could...

Private Equity Is Back: IMS Health Acquired By TPG For $5 Billionmore

And now we see that private equity is back too, as Texas Pacific Group ... acquired by investment funds managed ...

IMS Health nears $4bn private equity salemore

IMS Health, a provider of prescription-drug data, is close to a sale to TPG and Canada Pension Plan’s investment board...

Venture Woche 45/09: PDC Biotech, MIG-Fonds, Resource Equity, EKFin,more

Four Of Top Ten Private Equity Deals In Default, Or Worsemore

The private equity business has been unkind to the firms that have done the largest LBO deals of the last year.

Nanotechnology Company Gets Fourth Federal Grant for Cleantechmore

MemPro Ceramics Corporation received notice that The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the company a...

Court Rules That Using Domain Registration Privacy Services...more

Lots of people use private registration services for domain names, that lets them register a domain name while keeping...

Former Trimaran Execs Launch Gotham Private Equitymore

Four former Trimaran Capital Partners executives have launched a new buyout firm Gotham Private Equity Partners LP,...

Mid-market firm WestView Capital surpasses target with $325m closemore

...private equity firm that invests in lower to middle-market companies, has closed WestView Capital Partners II on...

Siguler Guff buys minority stake in Russian banking groupmore

US emerging markets and distressed debt specialist ... a $600m fund managed by Russia Partners, Siguler Guff’s Russian...

US biotech investor Celtic Therapeutics gets $100m commitment,...more

Celtic Therapeutics, a US biotech investor, has seen Nasdaq-listed contract research organisation PPD Inc commit $100m...

Conventional wisdom and cleantech venture capital [Cleantechmore

2.  Cleantech is really only solar, "smart grid", biofuels and electric vehicles.  3.  Cleantech is really...

Private Equity In Asia Rush To Exit Via IPOs, Salesmore

...the financial crisis hit last year, private equity firms in Asia have been seizing the opportunity to sell off...

AlpInvest Backs Proposed Private Equity Regulationsmore

AlpInvest Partners NV has backed proposals, published this week by global regulatory body, the International...

Tiger Founder Backs Ex-Lehman Exec.’s Private Equity Fundmore

The founder of Tiger Management and a former Lehman Brothers executive have founded a private equity infrastructure...

China National Petroleum, UOP team on biofuels projectmore

The companies said they plan to evaluate producing clean diesel and renewable jet fuel from Chinese feedstocks.

Which Most-Hated CEOs are Private-Equity Backed? (Surprisingly Few)more

...private equity firm. One more is a public company with a PE minority stake, another is a recent exit, and a handful...

Suntech signs 115 MW supply deal with enXcomore

California-based enXco plans to use the modules in its rooftop and ground mounted utility-scale projects in the U.S.

Activist Investors - Activist hedge fund TCI shuts shop in Asia...more

Hoodless Brennan Small Cap News Flash including NEOVIA Financial,more

Nviro Cleantech (NVR, 7.75p, £5.12m) Has won a €0.785m grant from the EU for a full scale demonstration plant for its...

Q&A: The future of private equity - part Imore

Active Private Equity Real Estate Strategymore

ISBN: 0470485027 | 286 pages | PDF | 2,8 MB Proven private equity real estate investing ... and underwriting standards,...

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