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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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.
China slows overseas unconventional energy acquisitions
China's energy giants are slowing their purchases of overseas unconventional oil and gas assets following two years of aggressive investment.
China Q1 outbound investments at $21.4 bln -study
China's outbound investments accelerated to $21.4 billion in the first three months of 2012 after stalling last year.
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Today Facebook’s price declined further, closed at $25.87 per share, down 3.83%. Today Facebook’s price declined further, closed at $25. 87 per share, down 3.
Today Facebook’s price declined further, closed at $25.87 per share, down 3.83%. Today Facebook’s price declined further, closed at $25. 87 per share, down 3.
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.
Clean Edge’s Third Annual State Clean Energy Index Provides Critical Benchmarking and Analysis of Dynamic U.S. Clean-Tech Landscape.
Long-term investors fearful of another global financial storm may be better prepared than they were before Lehman Brothers went bust in 2008, but their increasingly nervous disposition could itself be making markets more fragile.
European pension funds plan to withdraw more money from stock markets to avoid rising volatility and almost 70 percent of firms with exposure to peripheral euro sovereign bonds plan even more reductions.
