Late last year, Theo Epstein — the baseball executive whose work helped both the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs to landmark World Series victories — stepped down from his role at the Cubs. Unsurprisingly, there was no small amount of speculation as to what his next...
Pension firms are ploughing billions of pounds of people’s retirement savings into big tech companies despite fears that huge valuations are fuelling another dotcom bubble. Apple, Amazon and Facebook dominate the holdings of some of the biggest workplace pensions in...
Billionaire John Grayken’s Lone Star is among private equity firms lining up for all or parts of NatWest Group Plc’s Irish retail unit Ulster Bank, according to people familiar with the matter. Lone Star, which owns Germany’s IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, and...
Cartesian Growth Corp, a blank check company formed by Cartesian Capital Group targeting high-growth businesses, filed on Friday with the SEC to raise up to $250 million in an initial public offering. The New York, NY-based company plans to raise $250 million by...
When Burnley Football Club announced, on New Year’s Eve, that American private equity firm ALK Capital had acquired a majority stake in the soccer team, it was viewed as a boon for the club from the modest town in northwest England. Burnley players have been...
