A push to better recognise the economic value of “natural capital” – water systems, biodiversity, soil and carbon stores – has prompted the creation of what aims to be the world’s largest investment firm dedicated to projects that help the planet. Multinational...
Private equity firms improve the operating performance of the companies they buy according to a new study that challenges critics who claim fund returns are largely due to financial engineering. The authors analysed more than 800 European cases where private equity...
Kioxia Holdings, the world’s second-largest maker of flash memory chips, will list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 6 in an initial public offering worth up to $3.6 billion, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday. The listing would be Japan’s biggest IPO this year...
The chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority has written to the European Commission asking for clarity on the extent to which UK-based hedge funds and private equity firms can run funds – and take in money from investors – inside the EU after Brexit. The...
As the coronavirus pandemic rewrites the financial forecasts of businesses from travel to energy and retail, private equity firms are intensely focused on tech businesses they believe can weather the storm. The thesis is that companies are shifting operations online...
