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...A slowdown in dealmaking and lack of IPO prospects have prompted fund managers to embrace more creative financial engineering techniques to return capital to their LPs....
...Loren Adler, an economist who studies healthcare policy at the Brookings Institution, such disputes are likely to have far-reaching consequences, not only for the warring parties, but also for the cost and availability...
...Part of the allure for BREIT had been the availability of monthly liquidity in a high-quality, non-traded REIT....
...Wall Street banks can provide a cheap form of financing but the availability of the latter reflects market whims....
...Analysts at JPMorgan said that part of “the allure for BREIT had been the availability of monthly liquidity” but with redemptions capped they envisioned “advisors thinking twice before allocating new capital...
...The question is, once the writing is on the walls that there need to be big markdowns, do LPs start trying to fire sale their LP interests?...
...“They’ve had some very large outages,” said Servaas Verbiest from Sungard Availability Services, a company that provides “disaster recovery” for multiple cloud platforms....
...It could have far-reaching consequences for financial investors such as AIG and Blackstone that have provided financing under the LIHTC scheme — and for the long-term availability of affordable housing for...
...Private equity firms employ “people who can look at the best ways to use the availability of finance from governments to mitigate against what’s happening with the virus,” said one UK-based dealmaker....
...But like many peers, the group must contend with the restricted availability of trade credit insurance, and has experienced some turnover at the top of the business....
...In its prospectus, the company said that it aimed to operate 200 malls by 2021 “subject to market demand and the availability of suitable sites” — almost five times its existing 41 sites....
...“Recently the availability of capital has become even worse,” said one sovereign fund investor in KKR. “Private equity is stepping into the breach.”...
...(The hotel boasts on its website of its “unique service culture . . . delivered with an audacious twist”.)...
...The biggest cost, financially at least, is not burying the dead, but helping those addicts who stay alive — a task that is putting a huge strain on every public service, from hospitals and the police to...
...Fidelity National Information Services, a technology provider to banks and insurers, is buying SunGard Data Systems for $9.1bn, allowing its private equity owners to offload one of the signature deals of...
...He reckons the addressable market for AWS’s services could reach about $45bn by 2018....
...Strain on financial services companies, the dominant source of revenue at junk-rated SunGard, cut into the company’s business in recent years....
...He added the availability of private money has changed the equation for growing companies and entrepreneurs. “You used to need to take a company public to access capital....
...Keith Tilley, executive vice-president for global sales and customer services at Sungard Availability Services, an IT solutions provider, writes: You are not alone....
...This is even more true for fixed income indices as the asset class trades over-the-counter, and therefore pricing information availability can be more limited....
...The overnight repurchase rate, a gauge of funding availability among banks, climbed eight basis points, or 0.08 percentage point, to 2.94 percent as of 10:35 a.m. in Shanghai, according to a weighted average...
...Mr Batista’s oil services company OSX is one of the biggest contractors of OGX with claims estimated at up to $2.6bn....
...Paris-based company, headed by former Lazard banker Patrick Sayer, is accelerating the pace of asset sales as private equity dealmaking gradually improves in Europe, boosted by rising stock markets and greater availability...
...SunGard Data Systems, a $10.8bn Silver Lake-led transaction from the middle of the last decade that made giant tech buy-outs fashionable, has yet to produce the returns and the company is still private long...
...“Having foreign pension funds as our LPs used to be seen as a disadvantage because they move slowly. But now that’s given us stability. They actually answer cash calls,” he said....
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