Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1701 - 1710 of 1907 results for "private equity"

Private equity dodges credit knockout

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
While August's credit crunch knocked the stuffing out of private equity, a knockout punch it was not, and the sector has bounced off the ropes back onto its feet to "float like a butterfly". Private equity's (PE) bruises from the global liquidity squeeze ...

Hello kitty

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2007
... billion). Still in its embryonic stage in May, CIC made its first US$3 billion, (A$3.4 billion) investment in the US private equity group Blackstone. According to company sources, China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) will keep pouring foreign exchange into ...

Macq adds to small caps

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
... and the UK during his career." He said Walsh had worked as a sell-side and buy-side analyst in corporate finance, private equity and in industry. Earlier this year Morningstar named Macquarie Funds Management Small Companies team the Domestic Equities ...

Mariner taps into private equity

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
... bid to purchase TV production company Beyond International, which, if successful, will form a seed asset of a new private equity fund to be launched next year. The fund, to be housed under a new brand, Mariner Capital Partners, will invest in small- ...

Super funds to invest direct into infrastructure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
... airports, but the way they're now operating infrastructure for example, just on airports, is it's effectively becoming private equity, because they're actually putting in new management to the airports. "Super funds are getting to such a size that they ...

World's biggest fund eyes Aus resources

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
... in throwing its weight around financially," he said. The government recently purchased a US$3 billion share of private equity firm Blackstone prior to the company's creation.

The big bounce

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... on higher rates to customers as they try to regain mortgage market share. The easy credit may be drying up but Private Equity players won a reprieve of sorts in a parliamentary inquiry, triggered by the Qantas and Coles takeovers. With Private Equity ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
... Signs that tight credit markets may curb mergers and acquisitions capped stock prices, which have benefited from private equity firms' buyout activity this year, after private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co said weak debt market conditions ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
... Signs that tight credit markets may curb mergers and acquisitions capped stock prices, which have benefited from private equity firms' buyout activity this year, after private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co said weak debt market conditions ...

PE to re-build South Africa

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2007
... Christopher Gardner, the inspiration behind the Will Smith movie The Pursuit of Happyness, who has plans to launch a private equity fund to focus on making South Africa an attractive destination for US investments. Gardner is planning to launch a US$500 ...