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Economic round up: savings follow interest rates

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007
... to (transaction account vased) savings, signs must be good for global savings. This has to be good news too for private equity borrowers as they need access to these funds to fuel their amazingly high leverage ratios.

Economic round-up: Creaming cheese exports

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2007
... trend of around 3.7 per cent. Robust commodity prices, a weak US dollar, relatively high interest rates and our private equity takeover boom have all supported the rise of our dollar and many economists expect it to climb higher. However, with the currency ...

Economic round-up: Another day, another record

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
... acquisitions increased 62 per cent in the first half of the year to reach around A$3.16 trillion. Thomson says private equity players continued to play a major role in the global M&A boom and their involvement increased 95.1 per cent over the same period ...

GESB appoints CIO

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2007
... implemented a number of successful investment strategies at GESB, including establishing an Australian and international private equity strategy in 2003 and the recent re-structuring of the $2 billion international equity portfolio," he said.

Economic round-up: Raging bull

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
... BT and Australian Super already anticipate $1.5 billion and $1 billion respectively in additional super inflows. Private Equity enjoyed a year of mega-merger and acquisition activity in FY07, which Thomson Financial reports was worth $292 billion, more ...

Stung UK private equity managers fight back

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
Stung by mounting criticism in the UK alleging private equity managers are tax dodgers, asset strippers and don't contribute to the economy, the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) has thrown off the gloves and come out fighting. BVCA vice chairman ...

Westpac goes to water

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2007
... pursuing an aggressive expansion program in its Specialised Capital Group, focusing on infrastructure, property, private equity and high-yield debt. Specialised Capital Group head Sean McElduff told an analysts' briefing yesterday that Westpac was keen ...

No special rules needed for PE: FSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
In a pointer to where the Senate Inquiry into private equity will most likely head, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has issued a statement about how it intends to regulate private equity - collect more statistics, hold yet more inquiries but ...

Regulation of private equity unlikely to change

Regulation of private equity firms is unlikely to change, Jeremy Cooper, deputy chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, told an industry conference this week. Cooper told the annual conference of the Securities and Derivatives ...

Public companies should learn from private equity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
Public companies could emulate the perceived success of private equity if their boards were allowed to be more independent and they were empowered to manage companies more actively, including using more leverage. "Industry wide outcomes are mixed, but ...