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Guest column: Buying opportunities for those with cash

By Robert Hodges, managing director, UK, Carlyle Group

Published: September 12 2008 03:36 | Last updated: September 12 2008 03:36

One of the main challenges in today’s market is to balance the performance of an existing portfolio of assets while actively investing in volatile conditions to take advantage of the enormous buying opportunities that will be available to those who have the equity to invest.

Clearly, the various European investment markets are moving at different speeds. There is general slowdown in the volume of transactions, currently down some 40-50 per cent on last year, and investment yields have moved out.

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