by Sebastian | Apr 1, 2020 | News
Some BlackRock clients have used the recent market sell-off as an opportunity to increase their allocation to equities, CEO says BlackRock’s chief executive Larry Fink has written to shareholders in the $6.8tn asset manager to offer reassurance that the global economy...
by Sebastian | Apr 1, 2020 | News
Ardian has collected around $18 billion for a new fund to acquire private equity stakes and will shortly close it to new money, in one of the largest capital raisings since the coronavirus outbreak, people with knowledge of the matter said. The European asset manager...
by Sebastian | Apr 1, 2020 | News
Amid market shocks, alternative investment firms are moving some deals through the pipeline and tiptoeing into distressed opportunities. When Bain Capital told the 700 people in its Boston headquarters to work from home on March 11th it was big news. Now, anybody who...
by Sebastian | Apr 1, 2020 | News
Pandemic poses challenge, and opportunity, for buyout groups such as KKR and Carlyle A year ago, when US private equity group Carlyle began its search for investors in its fourth Japan fund, demand was buoyant. Sales of non-core businesses by Hitachi, Toshiba and...
