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China pension fund returns tumble in 2011 on sluggish markets

China's National Social Security Fund (NSSF) saw its annual investment return tumble to 0.8 percent last year, from 4.2 percent in 2010.


Private equity firms target ETF portfolio managers

Private equity investors have found another way to get into the growing U.S. exchange traded fund (ETF) market: investing in firms that manage ETF portfolios.

Private equity courts pension funds for M&A finance

Starved of finance from hard-pressed banks, private equity firms in Europe are sounding out yield-hungry pension funds, insurers and sovereign wealth funds as alternative sources of the finance they need to do deals.

U.S. private equity beat public markets in 2011-survey

U.S. private equity investments outperformed the stock market in 2011 and distributions to investors reached a record as fund managers seized on an opportunity to sell long-held assets.


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Europe is riding a gathering wave of Chinese direct investment that could bring in $250 billion to $500 billion in fresh capital this decade.
Resource deals dominated China's outbound investment of $21.4 billion in the first three months of 2012.
European citizens, concerned about the deepening euro zone crisis, are flocking to New York to buy real estate as safe assets.
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The value of hotel deals for the first five months of 2012 came to $5.1 billion, down from $6.4 billion a year earlier.
Asia's share of global private equity investments has doubled to 21 percent in the past four years, helped by last year's strong growth and that figure should continue to rise, a top McKinsey & Co executive told Reuters.
foreclosed homes attract investors. At the height of the housing bubble, the practice of "flipping" homes - buying them for cheap, fixing them up and reselling them for a quick profit - was popular enough to inspire its own TV show.
Australian private equity returned 7.85 percent to investors in 2011. Australian private equity returned 7. 85 percent to investors in 2011, and on a three-year basis returns far outstripped the benchmark Australian stock index, industry data showed.
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