Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is buying shares of private equity heavyweight Blackstone Group Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter, as the growing coronavirus pandemic roils markets. Blackstone slumped 1.6% on Wednesday and has declined 34% over the...
One of the first large acquisitions to be agreed since coronavirus pandemic rocked global markets KKR is to buy UK recycling company Viridor in a £4.2bn all-cash deal, marking one of the first large transactions to be agreed during the market turmoil triggered by the...
Private equity “will also certainly be challenged” in the economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak, according to PitchBook. Private equity funds may be safe from the daily turbulence of stock market volatility — but they won’t avoid the real economic impacts of...
Global financial markets are now in a bottoming phase, and investors should start to add risk and sell the U.S. dollar, according to Morgan Stanley. The tightening of financial conditions has been fast and furious, caused by a slump in stock markets and a widening of...
SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is buying back up to $4.8 billion of its shares after their recent slump, a move that partially met the demand of activist fund Elliott Management but failed to soothe investors panicking from the coronavirus pandemic. The Paul Singer-led... 