Private Equity / VC News

MUMBAI Oct 24 (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firms Carlyle Group and General Atlantic are in talks to jointly invest about $150 million to $200 million in India's online retailer Flipkart, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The two private equity firms will pick up a minority sta ...

By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED

The Carlyle Group officially wants to join the exclusive club of publicly traded private equity giants.

Carlyle filed for an initial public offering on Tuesday, a long-awaited development that will finally shed light on the investment firm’s business.

Th ...

By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED and PETER LATTMAN

When mega-buyouts were booming several years ago, private equity firms raced to go public. Today, the stock market has punished those firms that succeeded.

Shares of the Blackstone Group, which was first out of the gate, have dropped in value ...

By Mark Gongloff

Q: What’s the difference between AAA and AA+? That doesn’t sound so bad.

A: It’s not so bad — and there’s not much difference. Technically, AA+ is considered “high grade” credit, while AAA is “prime.” The likelihood of getting paid back by a AA+ credit is c ...

By KEVIN ROOSE

Two new profiles of top Goldman Sachs executives — a New York magazine profile of chief executive Lloyd C. Blankfein and a Bloomberg profile of president Gary D. Cohn — have shed new light on the men atop the world’s most secretive investment bank.

Mr. Blankfein participat ...

BY MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED AND JULIE BOSMAN

The Borders Group said Monday that it would liquidate, shutting down the 40-year-old bookseller after it failed to find a last-minute savior.

Though it is not a big surprise, the move will still strip the publishing industry of shelf space that is be ...

A fresh round of insider-trading prosecutions involving hedge funds may be in the works judging by some unusual name-dropping during two recent guilty pleas in the long-running probe.

Two former research consultants told a Manhattan federal judge that they gave confidential corporate information ...

Institutions and public pensions funds continue to warm up to hedge funds.

According to London-based data research firm Preqin, 32 percent of its universe of 2700 investors plan to invest in additional hedge funds over the next 12 months. They figure to allocate at least $125 billion but as much ...

BY ANDREW ROSS SORKIN

As the White House and Congress wrangle over raising the debt ceiling and reducing the federal deficit, tax loopholes would seem to be an easy target for compromise.

President Obama has talked about eliminating breaks for partners at hedge funds and private equity firms � ...

The first half of 2011 has been humbling for many of the $2 trillion hedge fund industry's biggest stars, with the likes of John Paulson, David Einhorn, and Louis Bacon losing money for their investors money while underperforming the major U.S. stock market indexes.

At the year's half-way point, ...

BY STEVEN M. DAVIDOFF

Private equity has broken venture capital’s heart, and V.C. is not taking it well.

The romance ended when Silver Lake, the private equity firm, agreed to sell Skype to Microsoft. Silver Lake is estimated to be pocketing more than $4 billion from the sale.

This would ...

By  Justin Grant   

The Agio Technology chief executive explains which platforms companies are going to need to comply with new regulations and why these changes will cost more for smaller hedge funds.

How much are the new compliance requirements -- and hiring new compliance officers -- goi ...

By Reuters

A pullback could be on the table this week for U.S. stocks after their best weekly performance in two years, especially if a raft of data headlined by the June jobs report doesn't bolster the argument of a strengthening economy.

Stocks rose for five straight days last week as the fo ...

By Stephen Taub

Can you make money following the filings of the smart money set, even if their disclosures are delayed by 45 days?

Yes. At least this was the case in the second quarter.

If you bought the most heavily owned stocks by hedge funds in mid-May after the holdings were disclosed n ...