Strapped for cash, schools in Houston, Texas are slowly turning to crowdfunding sites like donorschoose.org to get needed funding for their supplies and equipment, the Associated Press reported.

Private equity firm Leopard Capital is an opportunistic investor that prefers to invest in frontier markets in Asia where it can be competitive in giving long-term capital, co-founder Ken Stevens tells Forbes contributor Jon Springer in an interview.

An increasing number of hedge funds like Coatue Management are looking for opportunities to invest in the private markets, pouring money in technology startups, TechCrunch reported.

A report on Pensions & Investments said 2014 is set to be a very busy year for hedge fund launches because of factors like having experienced teams gearing to form their own companies and having available seed money, among others.

Henrique de Castro, Yahoo's No. 2 chief who recently got fired, received a much higher compensation than other executives and even his boss Marissa Mayer when he was hired in 2012.

The amount of US insured municipal bonds was pegged at to $12.08 billion last year, the lowest since the financial crisis. However, Reuters reported that the steep decline may be over.

North Texas received more than $630 million in venture capital investments in 2013, demonstrating a significant improvement from the $126 million commitment the region received in 2012.

Survey shows that there is little effort seen to improve the working conditions of junior investment bankers despite the death of an intern at Bank of America Merrill Lynch intern last summer, the Financial Times.

A lot of changes are taking place in the venture capital landscape and venture capital funds need to adapt or risk not thriving in the new landscape, The Economist reported.

BlackRock Inc said Asian institutions have sparked a renewed interest in real estate investments in the region as they search for higher returns at a time of low interest rates, Bloomberg reported.