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...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...But prising boardroom doors open remained tough for a new firm with a limited record....
...Microsoft on Tuesday showed off a new version of Bing that it said would be available immediately to anyone using a desktop computer, though only for “a limited number of queries”....
...The firm helped J&J create a limited liability company in Texas, forming the subsidiary that would take on the baby talc claims....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...Through a sovereign wealth fund, Doha is one of BPY’s biggest investors, holding $1.8bn worth of BPY preferred equity....
...Company B is a good services company, albeit with exposure to cyclical end-markets; is smaller than its peers; has lower margins, higher leverage and limited cash-generation ability; and went through a restructuring...
...“However, when it comes to inclusion in an index, we believe companies with limited voting rights cannot be excluded from the indices at this time....
...Complainants would have preferred the commission to move straight to a verdict on the complaint rather than draw out the process with an addition to the charge sheet....
...GSO would get a preferred return for putting up the capital for the new projects....
...It also announced a $500m drilling joint venture with the lending affiliate of Blackstone, whereby the fund puts up all the cash and earns a preferred return....
...Venture capital firms have preferred to invest in entrepreneurs building Bitcoin businesses, rather than the currency itself....
...That remained true after Tuesday’s much-anticipated meeting of the policy board of the Bank of Japan, at which the BoJ adopted Shinzo Abe’s preferred 2 per cent target for inflation and committed to open-ended...
...There were, for example, only limited places available for the most serious competitors before registration was opened up to the general public....
...The collapse of ChuoAoyama aside, punishment for most indiscretions is also lax, he says, with small fines the preferred recourse to business-killing licence suspensions....
...It is more likely that the debt ratio will exceed 160% and, left untended, will render market access both before and even after 2013 severely limited (or effectively non-existent)....
...Private equity remains a much smaller part of emerging economies than of the developed world, which is probably another reason why global limited partners (LPs) continue sensing an opportunity despite the...
...The agreement also gives Morgan Stanley the option to buy preferred shares in PDT, a provision Mr Hintz said should allow the bank “to get a piece of earnings but a limited amount of risk”....
...; $2.1 billion in interest income from credit extended to American International Group, Inc.; $1.3 billion of dividends on preferred interests in AIA Aurora LLC and ALICO Holdings LLC; and $0.8 billion in...
...Limited partners (LPs), however, are not so keen on these investments....
...The Federal Reserve has limited private equity groups to bank stakes of less than 25 per cent. But the latest crisis has prompted regulators to take a softer stance....
...The stricken banking sector is expected to become a preferred hunting ground for these vulture funds....
...Limited partners have reason to be alarmed by this sudden shift in strategy....
...At the parent level, GM and the Cerberus consortium have also agreed to convert $1.1bn of preferred stock to common equity....
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