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Hedge fund lock-ups

Why are investors in hedge funds willingly submitting to ever-longer lock-ups of their capital?

LBO runners up

With the leveraged buy-out market now turned on its head, some private equity investors who lost out are getting a second bite at the apple

Private equity’s future

For those wondering where private equity’s cash piles go next, watch TPG. The firm’s latest two mooted deals are anything but the mega-buy-outs that dominated last year, but have since become impossible

Private equity funding

Problem? What problem? Credit is frozen, equities are manic and several big leveraged buy-outs have collapsed in acrimony. Yet money continues to pour into private equity’s coffers

Hedge funds

In the hedge fund world, investing in a flexible fund following a multitude of investment strategies seems to pay off time and time again

Clear Channel brawl

Clear Channel and the sponsors claim the banks are derailing the deal by imposing shorter-term financing at the 11th-hour

Blackstone’s loss

Blackstone is hardly making it easy. Starting its fourth-quarter highlights with a focus on ‘pro forma adjusted reportable segment revenues’ is enough to put off most investors

3Com’s silver lining

Are regulators doing private equity a favour? During the boom, the lack of anti-trust risk for financial buyers, and their ability to move quickly, supposedly gave them an edge over strategic bidders in auctions

Private equity earnings misses

The big risk for public equities right now is that earnings fall off a cliff (declines of a third are conceivable). On this subject companies owned by private equity are deafeningly silent