Platte River Ventures, a private equity investment firm for middle market operating companies in the aerospace, industrial services, energy services, agriculture, chemicals, metals, industrial minerals and transportation sectors, has appointed two professionals to its Denver-based team. Mark Brown joins Platte River Ventures (PRV) as a vice president, and Michelle Eidson

India was the first country in Asia to raise rates to moderate the domestic effects of commodity inflation and the global economic recovery. Now that inflation has stabilized, India now looks to be first country to stop raising its policy rates, which should be positive for equities. This call will

Having languished in the doldrums since the global financial crisis, a revitalised private equity sector has recently begun putting smiles on the faces of investors, fund managers, and consultants alike. Existing funds are being deployed, new ones are being raised, and investor allocations to private equity are inching upward. In

With sluggish returns projected for many asset classes, institutional investors are turning to private equity as a source of alpha, but expect greater transparency, reporting and risk management from managers, according to a global survey report released today by SEI in collaboration with Greenwich Associates.   The survey report, entitled

Some 55% of companies that sought to make a transaction in the last 12 months failed to do so, according to BDO’s annul M&A survey, which polls the views of CEOs and Financial Directors of mid-market companies. The survey fund that on average one transaction has been completed for every