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...Besides credit card debts, Blackstone has picked up home improvement loans, auto loans and loans financing rooftop solar power....
...Analysts say the 54-year-old may have no option but to sell assets....
...“Macquarie [and other private equity investors] move in and change the corporate structure. They refinance the assets, hiking up the debt and reducing the equity investment....
...Most of the products are not repackaged for the asset-backed securitisation markets so remain on banks’ books....
...The firm currently manages $14bn of assets....
...Cegid, is backed by Silver Lake, KKR and AltaOne Capital, while London-based Oakley Capital owns Grupo Primavera. 3....
...In today’s newsletter: Lina Khan has her eye on private equity Claridge’s is home to a dispute Former Apollo exec demystifies the PE world US regulators muscle up against private dealmaking Lina Khan...
...JPMorgan Asset Management has halted trading on one of its emerging market equity funds with exposure to Russian assets....
...; bribes from companies; and skimming off foreign loans and raiding the public treasury,” said a 2007 World Bank Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative report, which featured kleptocrats such as Indonesia’s Suharto...
...This would allow for a positive annual public investment flow backed by additions to the stock of public owned assets which can be realised later....
...Ryan McMorrow 3....
...This week’s #techAsia newsletter points out SoftBank-backed Asian companies going public could help it avoid this being a one-off....
...Blackstone agreed to house the new venture in its offices and bankroll it with a $5m loan, in return for a 50 per cent stake....
...Last week no merger or acquisition worth more than $1bn was announced anywhere in the world for the first time since 2004....
...Wildberries, the business she founded in her Moscow apartment while on maternity leave in 2004, has fought off venture capitalists and state-backed rivals to become Russia’s leading ecommerce site....
...But assets under management, which determine steady management-fee income, hit €46.5bn in the third quarter, up €6bn on a year earlier....
...Obesity and the illnesses it causes rarely appear as a cause on death certificates....
...Take the example of Honor, a home care start-up backed by the blue-chip venture capital group Andreessen Horowitz....
...Banks typically have 3-4x the capital of 2008, and they have lower risk loan books....
...He entered parliament in 2004 but his early career was in consulting and private equity and he still talks of “growth deltas” like the McKinsey staffer he once was....
...This concept has been used in a modest way for a long time but 2020 might be the year it really takes off. 3....
...The targeted rates on offer (investors could find they take home considerably less) range from around 3 per cent for lower-risk loans, to 10 per cent or more for investors willing to extend high-risk bridging...
...The Paces were among 10,507 borrowers whose home loans Countrywide packed into a set of securities called the CWABS Asset-Backed Certificates Trust 2005-11....
...“The large increase in loan losses is likely to raise questions about the asset quality outlook....
...The world’s third-largest asset manager last month launched the first in a series of videos and podcasts featuring the actress interviewing executives of prominent US-listed companies that form part of...
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