Société Générale Index (SGI) has launched SGI Global Security, a benchmark of the security sector worldwide.

Bear Stearns was the bearer of more bad news last week. Investors in its High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Fund shouldn’t have any hope of recovering much of their money.

With private equity in Western markets increasingly reliant on financial engineering and high levels of leverage, investors are starting to look to South East Europe for investment opportu

HgCapital, the European sector-focused mid-market private equity investor, has implemented a series of senior management changes to continue the firm’s evolution by promoting the next gene

KBW Asset Management, a wholly-owned subsidiary of boutique investment bank KBW, has appointed John B Wimsatt as managing director and portfolio manager for the KBW Financial Services Fund

Lehman Brothers Private Equity Partners Limited (LBPE), a closed ended private equity fund-of-funds investment company, has achieved its target of raising USD 500 million through an IPO on

Partners Group, the Switzerland-based global alternative asset manager, is continuing to expand its presence in the Asian market with the announcement of a co-operation with Sumitomo Mitsu

Close Ventures, the UK-based venture capital trust manager, has led a GBP 4.36m round of funding, with Foursome Investments and existing investors, into Oxsensis, an industrial technology

Sir David Walker delivered his much-awaited consultative report on the UK private equity market, ‘Disclosure and Transparency in Private Equity’, yesterday.

Mark Spinner, corporate partner and Head of Private Equity at Eversheds, the mid market PE specialist law firm, comments on the latest proposals for a code of conduct covering UK PE firms