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In a Romney Believer, Private Equity’s Risks and Rewards
Posted: January 21st, 2012, 7:24pm EST by By JULIE CRESWELL
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The merits of private equity firms, like Marc J. Leder’s Sun Capital, have come into question again because of Mitt Romney’s time at the firm Bain Capital.
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Hedge Funds Seeking Gains in Greek Crisis
Posted: July 3rd, 2011, 8:26pm EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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The twists and turns of the Greek crisis and the whipsaw market activity have made it difficult for some hedge funds to maneuver.
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Hedge Funds Seeking Gains in Greek Crisis
Posted: July 3rd, 2011, 8:26pm EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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The twists and turns of the Greek crisis and the whipsaw market activity have made it difficult for some hedge funds to maneuver.
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Not a Flashy Investor, Just Successful
Posted: May 31st, 2011, 1:22am EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Martin Sass runs a boutique investment firm with $8 billion in assets. He doesn’t believe in get-rich-quick schemes and has “a healthy degree of paranoia.”
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Analysts Wary of LinkedIn’s Stock Surge
Posted: May 23rd, 2011, 1:10am EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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While some Internet stocks like LinkedIn are achieving eye-raising valuations, many people are still hesitant to proclaim that the markets are on the cusp of another tech bubble.
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Contrarian Adding Bets in Mideast
Posted: April 6th, 2011, 3:22am EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the founder of Colony Capital, which controls $36 billion in investments, sees the Arab world as an investing opportunity despite the unrest.
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A Portfolio’s Price
Posted: January 4th, 2011, 10:00pm EST by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Buyout specialists are seemingly at odds over how their investments are or are not panning out.
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A Portfolio’s Price
Posted: January 4th, 2011, 10:00pm EST by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Buyout specialists are seemingly at odds over how their investments are or are not panning out.
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DealBook: Negotiations With Banks Begin for Troubled Assets
Posted: November 10th, 2010, 10:20pm EST by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Hedge funds and private equity firms have been hunting for bargains in the wreckage left from the financial crisis.
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A Hedge Fund Soared, Controlled by Women, or So It Claimed
Posted: October 18th, 2010, 10:02pm EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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The thriving hedge fund may have misled customers when it said it was owned and operated by women when it was financed by S. Donald Sussman, a hedge fund mogul.
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For a Few, Papers Seem a Timely Bet
Posted: September 22nd, 2010, 12:50am EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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A low-profile hedge fund investor has an interest in owning Philadelphia’s two main newspapers.
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Hedge Fund Managers Set Up for Next Acts
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 12:50am EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Hedge fund managers who closed their firms are opening new funds, and in some cases promising to make previous investors whole before taking performance fees.
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‘Quant’ Funds Try to Resurrect Computer Investing
Posted: August 19th, 2010, 4:31pm EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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The quantitative investment managers with high-flying computer models have lost favor since the big downturn.
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W. L. Ross to Buy $50 Million Stake in Sun Bancorp
Posted: July 8th, 2010, 1:50am EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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W. L. Ross & Company plans to acquire a 25 percent share of the Vineland, N.J., bank, which has assets of $3.5 billion.
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Stimulus Package Bond Program Raises Doubts
Posted: June 16th, 2010, 12:17am EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Critics contend that the low prices of Build America Bonds and high bank fees cost taxpayers.
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Raymond V. Haysbert Sr., 90, Dies, Baltimore Civic Leader and Businessman
Posted: May 28th, 2010, 5:08pm EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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A Tuskegee Airman in World War II, Mr. Haysbert later led Park Sausage, one of the first minority-owned companies to go public, and advised political candidates.
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Does Icahn Still Make Them Tremble?
Posted: March 20th, 2010, 10:11pm EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Carl C. Icahn likes to be called an activist investor, not a raider. But his latest hostile bid for a company came just last week.
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Back From the Brink (but Watch Your Step)
Posted: December 26th, 2009, 10:00pm EST by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Despite overall improvement in the economy, the top financial stories of 2009 are still unfinished.
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Buyout Firms Profited as a Company’s Debt Soared
Posted: October 5th, 2009, 6:14am EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Private equity firms, former executives and Wall Street investment banks profited as the Simmons Bedding Company fell into bankruptcy, devastating its bondholders and employees.
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Funny, He Doesn’t Look Like a Rock Star
Posted: August 22nd, 2009, 2:39pm EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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The chief executive of Sony/ATV sees promise in the reuse of songs on TV, in movies and in greeting cards.
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How to Start a Company (and Kiss Like Angelina)
Posted: July 12th, 2009, 12:57am EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Success making how-to videos takes more than a bunch of short clips. On the Internet, part of the trick is having a distinct personality.
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Oh, No! What Happened to Archway?
Posted: May 31st, 2009, 12:36am EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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The maker of Archway cookies, bought by a private equity firm in 2005, was hit by an accounting scandal last year that hastened its collapse.
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When the Real Estate Game Cost $9.95
Posted: April 18th, 2009, 5:20pm EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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For millions of real estate wannabes, Carleton Sheets’s infomercials embodied the bubble as much as Citigroup or Merrill Lynch did.
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Market Place: Price Paid for Merrill Is Rising
Posted: January 24th, 2009, 1:02am EST by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Shareholders are angry over Kenneth D. Lewis’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch, and the lawsuits are flying.
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Bank of America May Receive More Bailout Money
Posted: January 15th, 2009, 3:26am EST by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Bank of America, struggling with mounting losses at Merrill Lynch, would be the second bank after Citigroup to receive an additional lifeline from the government.
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Protected by Washington, Fannie and Freddie Grew
Posted: July 12th, 2008, 7:50pm EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Helped by their lobbying, the imperiled mortgage finance companies resisted stronger oversight as they expanded.
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Protected by Washington, Fannie and Freddie Grew
Posted: July 12th, 2008, 7:50pm EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Helped by their lobbying, the imperiled mortgage finance companies resisted stronger oversight as they expanded.
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Nothing Sells Like Celebrity
Posted: June 21st, 2008, 10:52pm EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Where stars end and products and pitches begin has grown less and less discernible in the era of the human billboard.
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Walter H. Diamond, Expert on Taxation, Is Dead at 95
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 12:55am EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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Mr. Diamond was an expert on international taxation and helped prepare the foreign exchange proposals for the Bretton Woods conference, which established the International Monetary Fund.
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A Lender Gets Caught in the Currents
Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 10:30pm EDT by By JULIE CRESWELL
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The story of CIT illustrates the perils awaiting any firm that jumps into seemingly lucrative new arenas at the expense of focusing on markets that it knows and understands best.
