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...Last year Blackstone bought QTS Realty Trust for about $10bn, at the time the largest deal in data centre history....
...In 1988 he bankrolled a precocious computer scientist called David Shaw, whose eponymous hedge fund DE Shaw today manages more than $60bn and helped usher in the quant revolution that has rewired the investment...
...Quant funds like Renaissance Technologies, the $60bn firm founded by Jim Simons, and DE Shaw, continued their winning streak....
...But what about the memorial to Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw which sits in front of the Massachusetts State House on Boston Common? We don’t have to like them....
...Quantitative firms that have made very significant investments in infrastructure, technology, data sets and human capital have an ongoing competitive advantage,” said John McCormick, chief executive of Blackstone...
...Its biggest investors will become a Blackstone-led consortium and Canada’s Thomson Reuters. And a healthy majority of its revenues will come from outside the UK....
...It is the subject of a behind-the-scenes bidding war among a group of private equity funds that has reportedly included Blackstone, Energy Capital Partners and Carlyle....
...Tony James, president of Blackstone, the US asset management group, has predicted “a day of reckoning” that will contract the hedge fund industry by as much as a quarter....
...GSO, the debt arm of private equity group Blackstone, is among the blue-chip investors and hedge funds seeking to block the controversial refinancing....
...The deal includes the lease of the Prudential Center in Newark, its home arena. Mr Harris is the majority owner of the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team....
...AEG’s assets include the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the O2 arenas in London and Berlin and stakes in US sports groups, including the Los Angeles Lakers ....
...quashes Center Parcs sale speculation with £1billion refinancing - Xavier Rolet in last-ditch bid to rescue LSE-TMX merger - Vulture funds to profit from a second Greek bailout - BP wins first legal challenge...
...A Dubai sovereign wealth fund has teamed up with Blackstone and others aiming to buy Informa from under the noses of a rival private-equity consortium, reports the FT....
...Blackstone has taken the lead in pulling together the new consortium....
...Those down include the biggest names in the industry, among them major funds from Goldman Sachs, Highbridge, DE Shaw, Tudor, Lansdowne, Atticus, Blackstone and Caxton....
...Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone is 59. David Rubenstein of Carlyle is 57. Among hedge fund groups rumoured as possible IPO candidates, Renaissance Technologies’ James Simons is 68, David Shaw of D.E....
...Larry Johnston, chief executive since 2001, presided over last year’s $2.5bn acquisition of Shaw’s, a Boston area chain, from the UK’s Sainsbury....
...Shaw, Chairman and CEO, D.E. Shaw Co. Stanley S. Shuman, Managing Director, Allen Co....
...DE Shaw this year acquired FAO Schwarz out of bankruptcy....
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