Tag Archives: successes


Europe buyout firms eye IPOs as stock mkts thaw

Reuters – European private equity firms are keen to start bringing their best-performing portfolio companies to market, encouraged by early successes on the other side of the Atlantic. Last week KKR successfully listed semiconductor business Avago Technologies Ltd and is […]

Hedge funds get a new cop

Wealth Bulletin – The UK’s financial regulator has hired Australian Andrew Crain to head up the team that oversees the roughly 40 largest hedge fund managers that operate in the UK. Crain, a former regulator in his home country, assumes […]

MILTON BROS. FEEL HEAT ON FUNDS

New York Post – The heat is getting turned up under Alan and Philip Milton, the brother team that runs Greenwich-based Windmill Management and its embattled SageCrest hedge funds. A lawyer for an investor in the SageCrest II hedge fund […]

Capital Z Adds 10-Year Bear Stearns Marketing Vet

FINalternatives- Hedge fund seeder Capital Z Asset Management has hired a Bear Stearns veteran to head up its marketing effort and support its portfolio funds. James Marrone was named a partner and chief marketing officer at New York-based CZAM. Marrone […]

Traders head for hedge funds

Times Online- They may be partly responsible for the mess the banks are in but bankers are not sticking around for the clean-up. Many top bankers have lost confidence in their institutions and are quietly heading for the exit. The […]