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After a rough 2009 -- even with the recovery in public capital markets -- investors in private equity funds remained cautious with their cash, a trend that appears likely to continue.
Insurers Will Come Back to Hedge Funds in 2010
12:30PM 12/18/2009
Investing, Marsh & McLennan Cos, American International Group, One Year Later
Notoriously conservative investors, insurance companies cut their hedge fund allocations in 2009. But as the sting of the financial crisis eases, they'll come back looking for stronger returns.
Private equity returns down 30 percent -- and that's the good news
9:30AM 10/19/2009
For the past year, silver linings have been in short supply. Even as financial markets claw their way back up, the wealth lost has been neither forgotten nor completely recovered. In the private equity sector, the good news is that, frankly, the situation could have been worse. Though returns...
Private equity fund follows Ayn Rand's teachings and finds opportunity
11:00AM 10/17/2009
The next time you take a bite of a Carvel ice-cream cake, you'd better make sure you earned it. The company that owns it, Roark Capital Group, is an Atlanta-based private equity fund named for the virtuously selfish architect concocted by writer and philosopher -- and master of neither writing nor...
Global private equity market is way down, but it may have hit bottom
12:30PM 10/01/2009
For the private equity industry, 2009 is looking a lot like 2003. After yet another tough quarter, the amount of new funds raised plummeted, reaching levels not seen in six years, according to documents London-based private equity research firm Preqin has provided to DailyFinance. Fewer funds are...
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