VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Investors are pulling away from investing money in funds, instead they co-investment alongside private equity companies.

Leveraged buyouts backed by private equity involved big names since financial crises.

U.S. companies have become more confident in completing larger acquisitions as the country shows receovery.

Foreign language schools market in Brazil are seeing a number of takeover.

Reich & Tang is utilizing the benefits of floating rate instruments as it takes it stance on improvement investment strategy.

Investors in Spain have been focusing on bond sale, saying that they are not worried over the turmoil in Cyprus.

Several hoaxes on stocks have emerged from the social media site Twitter as investors use the site as source of stock information.

Investors of Commodity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are shifting their interest to funds with broad commodities exposure.

CBS is expected to offer $100 million for One Equity Partners' stake in TV Guide Network, sources cited.

P. Schoenfeld Asset Management or PSAM is now raising questions on the proposed merger of MetroPCS Communications Inc. and T-Mobile as it vetoes the deal.

Barclays has decided to declare a 14.2 percent stake in Dutch cable company Ziggo following its failure to find enough buyers for the shares in a sale.

French insurer AXA is now finalizing the sale of the majority state in its private equity arm to a group of investors in a deal worth about 500 million euros.

Greece has reached a deal to purchase local units of Cypriot banks in a bid to save Greek banks from the crisis.

Ketchup manufacturer H.J. Heinz is seeking fund for its acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital as it expands its high-yield bond sale and decides to tighten price guidance.

Telecom group Vimpelcom is tapping UBS to supervise the sale of its Canadian unit Wind Mobile, which is being valued between $500 million and $1 billion.