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Carlyle Group to Liquidate Hedge Fund

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The private equity firm Carlyle Group will liquidate its lone hedge fund, after stating that it failed to achieve “critical mass.” The fund, Carlyle-Blue Wave Partners Management LP, was a multi-strat fund launched by Rick Goldsmith […]

Alan Schwartz Plans Exit from JPMorgan

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Alan Schwartz, former Bear Stearns CEO, has decided to leave JPMorgan and pursue other ventures.  “With most of the work on the merger integration behind us, Alan will be moving on from the firm at the […]

KKR Aims to Catch Blackstone With Offering, New Funds

Bloomberg- Henry Kravis is taking KKR & Co. public and moving into real estate and stock funds as he tries to catch up with Stephen Schwarzman’s Blackstone Group LP, the world’s largest private-equity firm. KKR, co-founded by Kravis in 1976, […]

Cerberus’ Snow Compares Fannie, Freddie To Hedge Funds

FINalternatives- It’s not the first time “hedge fund” has been used as an epithet, but a former U.S. Treasury chief is using the H.F. words to describe mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two firms, into which Treasury […]

Carlyle Group to invest 87 mln usd in Chinas Sinorgchem

Quamnet.com – Private equity firm Carlyle Group said it has agreed to invest 87 mln usd in Shanghai-based chemical company Sinorgchem (Group) Co. Sinorgchem is the largest Chinese supplier of para-phenylenediames (PPDs), a key chemical additive in the production of […]

Shareholders Approve $7.2 Billion WaMu Bailout

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – A $7.2 billion bailout package was approved Tuesday by 94% of Washington Mutual Shareholders in a move that gives private equity firm TPG control of over 50% of the company, says the Seattle Times. Not that […]

Cerberus raising funds to buy distressed assets

Reuters- Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management is starting a new fund to invest in assets it thinks have been driven down too low by the credit crisis, Chairman John Snow told Reuters on Thursday. The decision by Cerberus to […]

China’s Safe to invest $2.5bn in TPG fund

Financial Times – China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange has agreed to invest more than $2.5bn in the latest TPG fund, in what could be the largest commitment ever made to a private equity firm, people familiar with the matter […]

Sovereign funds may have biggest impact on alternative assets

Reuters- Sovereign wealth funds, which control up to $3.7 trillion in assets and have been making headlines as they buy assets in the West, will ultimately have the biggest impact on private equity and hedge funds, analysts at JPMorgan Chase […]