The BVCA, the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, has appointed Simon Walker, currently senior adviser to the chairman and chief executive of the Reuters group, as its

Alternative asset management placement agent CP Eaton Partners has announced the closing of its 50th fundraising, marking more than USD27bn in total capital raised.

ETF Securities, which has pioneered the offering of exchange-traded commodities on the London Stock Exchange and other leading European markets, will set out the investment case for gold and other

The managers of the Goldman Sachs group’s battered Global Alpha hedge fund has assured investors in a letter that it will not shut down and will constrain borrowing and adapt to market vol

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The Blackstone Group has announced the appointment of Vikrant Sawhney as a managing director in the firm’s private equity group.

Third Rock Ventures has announced the launch of the firm’s first fund, which will invest in life sciences companies at the early stages of formation and has USD378m of committed capital.

UK mid-market private equity firm, Graphite Capital, has backed the GBP22m acquisition by Dominion Gas of a supplier of industrial gases to the offshore industry, Global Gas Supplies.

Barclays Private Equity, which specialises in pan-European mid market buy-outs, has announced the close of its third European mid-market fund.

Standard Life Investments (Private Equity) has been selected by California Public Employees Retirement System to manage a mandate valued at EUR400m euros for its alternative investment man