Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group has agreed to plough in USD2.25bn in embattled discount brokerage E*Trade Financial Corp.

Raj N Vora has joined the private equity team at Northern Trust Global Advisors, the group’s multi-manager arm, to focus on portfolio management, sourcing and due diligence of new investme

With more than USD30bn invested through the first three quarters of the year, venture capital activity in the US, Europe, China and Israel in 2007 is on pace to post its highest annual inv

VantagePoint Venture Partners has expanded its investment team with the appointments of venture capital industry veterans Tom Bevilacqua and Bill Harding as managing directors and co-heads

Graphite Capital, the UK mid-market private equity specialist, has backed the GBP 100 million management buy-out of Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) from global private equity group, Advent

Pension funds, endowments and foundations that responded to a recent survey across the world are forecasting that over the next two years they will dedicate an even larger slice of their t

Shore Capital Group, the independent investment banking group based in London, Liverpool, Frankfurt and Berlin, is to further expand its alternative assets and principal finance capabiliti

Former US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is to join Chicago-based Cressey & Company, a recently formed private investment firm focused on the healthcare industry, as a partner.

Innovacom has raised its latest fund, Innovacom 6, with EUR150m (USD200m), 20 per cent more than the previous fund.