New York-based Conative Capital Management has launched its first hedge fund, CCM Partners Fund, which will make fundamentally-driven, privately negotiated investments in the capital struc

The Blackstone Group and its hedge fund management subsidiary GSO Capital Partners have taken a stake in Crestwood Midstream Partners, a private company active in the midstream sector of t

Investment by member firms of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association exhibited an underlying increase of more than one-third in 2007 despite the turbulent conditions ca

The vast majority of private equity firms will be doing fewer deals for less money over the coming 12 months, as the industry reveals its most pessimistic transaction outlook in at least f

Hedge funds and investment banks may have suffered fresh losses of up to USD5bn over the past month alone on exotic interest rate options, reports

Mid-market European private equity firm Industri Kapital has announced the change of its name to IK Investment Partners, reflecting the evolution of the firm’s investment and geographic fo

Japanese banking group Mitsui and Australian-based asset manager Challenger Financial Service Group have established the Emerging Market Infrastructure Fund targeting equity commitments of

Emerging markets private equity firm Actis has invested in a joint venture company alongside the Vaishnavi Group, a company active in residential and commercial projects, to construct a re

Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, the former managers of the now-defunct Bear Stearns High Grade Structured Credit hedge funds, have been arrested at their