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...Oaktree Capital is seeking to raise $10bn for a new fund that will help finance large private equity takeovers, taking advantage of a void on Wall Street as other lenders are sidelined....
...Private equity firms that buy out companies are taking advantage of a recovery in global corporate bond and loan markets, after the Federal Reserve signalled that inflation had been sufficiently tamed for...
...This was something its previous backer Macquarie had taken full advantage of, pulling £2.7bn in dividends from the business in its 10 or so years of ownership....
...US private equity group KKR plans to boost its exposure to Japan, taking advantage of low corporate valuations and weakness in the yen to increase its investment in the country....
...members are in their late 70s and are looking to follow stars such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen who have sold their song catalogues for hundreds of millions of dollars in the past few years, taking advantage...
...Musicians saw their opportunity, too, with artists like Stevie Nicks and Shakira taking advantage of the bullish mood to sell their life’s work at eye-watering prices....
...The recent strength of the BSL market has reduced some of the advantage that private credit previously held over public markets....
...“So the LPs have more leverage today than they’ve often had.” Questions over questionnaires One of the things LPs are looking for is better disclosure on ESG performance....
...For the annuity buyers, the crucial point is that there are tax advantages to buying an investment product classified, for vestigial reasons, as insurance....
...Companies took advantage of low interest rates to lock in cheap financing during the pandemic, he said....
...Specialists in private investment boast about its advantages over public markets. For the bosses of Gresham House, those advantages now have a powerful personal illustration....
...“We’re not forced sellers of assets on the one side and yet we have the ability to move very quickly when there is dislocation to take advantage of an opportunity,” Blackstone president Jonathan Gray recently...
...Blackstone also thinks it holds broad corporate advantages in “distribution” that will fuel its success....
...A few corporate buyers have helped private equity LPs this year....
...LPs finding themselves overcommitted to the asset class on the tail-end of the decade-long boom are also selling stakes in large buyout funds in the secondaries market, selling at up to 20 per cent discounts...
...But FTAV’s biggest takeaway from the subsequent call with analysts is how excited the company is about taking advantage of the US banking mess....
...Investment groups are trying to deploy cash quickly in order to take advantage of bargains....
...His advantage is strongest right now. Client confidence is weak and founders will be correspondingly emollient. If he works fast, Schwartz can change Carlyle for the better....
...Bloomberg declined to comment on the deal, or to make executives available for interviews for this article, underscoring how the company prizes privacy as a competitive advantage....
...The businesses themselves would like to be agile opportunists, taking advantage of dislocations in the market....
...Adding capacity to an existing plant would give it a cost advantage over other competing projects, he said....
...Activist hedge fund Starboard Value has taken a stake in Salesforce and is calling for the cloud software group to increase its margins, arguing that the company has not taken advantage of its position as...
...In its latest filing BREIT said it has a leverage ratio of 46 per cent and $9.6bn of quickly-available capital to handle any outflows and take advantage of opportunities....
...Dis-synergies — notably in international wealth management and commercial banking — outweighed advantages, in our view....
...Mobileye had some advantages over the venture-backed start-ups that made up the bulk of listings in recent years. It boasts higher revenues, lower losses and a longer record....
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