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    Even in times of interest rate uncertainty, a certificate of deposit (CD) can still be part of your cash strategy.

  • Yahoo’s issues have broad resonance; Commentary: Institutional investors wield power

    MarketWatch

    NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Yahoo Inc.’s travails offer a stew of corporate governance issues that resonate well beyond the Internet company. The news around the departure of Yahoo (YHOO, US) Chief Executive Scott Thompson is still developing, ...

  • Yahoo’s latest CEO exit draws mixed reaction; Some analysts see opportunity for Net firm; others, a bigger mess

    MarketWatch

    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of Yahoo Inc. got a small lift Monday following its latest CEO departure, though analysts expressed mixed views about the latest events to plague the troubled Web pioneer.

  • LightSquared Moves Toward Bankruptcy

    WSJ.com

    Hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. venture was preparing Sunday to file for bankruptcy protection after negotiations with lenders to avoid a potential debt default faltered, said people familiar with the matter.

  • Should Carried Interest Be Taxed as Ordinary Income, Not as Capital Gains?

    WSJ.com

    The debate over the taxation of carried interest has been bubbling for years in Congress, to little, if any, effect. But the release of Mitt Romney's tax returns during the Republican presidential primaries—showing that much of the ...

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    Polycom's Smart Move

    Barrons.com

    Polycom (PLCM: Nasdaq) By Wedbush ($12.01, May 10, 2012) Polycom announced that it was entering into an agreement with Sun Capital Partners to sell its enterprise wireless voice business for gross proceeds of $110 million.

  • False capital has value, but not values; Commentary: Money has social, political dimension as well

    MarketWatch

    LAS VEGAS, Nev. (MarketWatch) — Hundreds of investment managers have gathered at the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference (SALT) to talk about money and politics — and more. And the more is about the financial as well as the social and ...

  • ResCap Set to File for Bankruptcy

    WSJ.com

    Ally Financial Inc.'s mortgage subsidiary is expected to file for bankruptcy late Sunday or early Monday morning, a person familiar with the matter said.

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    Chinese Auto Dealer Plans $433 Million IPO

    WSJ.com

    HONG KONG—Chinese motor-vehicle dealer China Yongda Automobiles Services Holdings Ltd. plans to raise up to $433 million in an initial public offering ahead of its listing in Hong Kong on May 30, people familiar with the situation said ...

  • LightSquared on verge of bankruptcy: report

    MarketWatch

    CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — LightSquared Inc. a venture of hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy Sunday as talks with lenders to avoid going bust have faltered, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing ...

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    Morgan Stanley Bailed On Firm

    WSJ.com

    In 2010, Morgan Stanley helped Zoe Cruz, the co-president pushed out of the firm three years earlier, launch a hedge fund by writing her a $20 million check and expressing willingness to pour in more money later.

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    Venture-Capital Firm NEA Raises $2.1 Billion

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    New Enterprise Associates has closed on $2.08 billion toward a fund that could grow in size to become one of the largest ever raised. The firm said in a regulatory filing that it plans to raise up to $2.56 billion, up from an original $2.3 ...

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    Warburg Sells CAMP Systems

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    Chicago buyout shop GTCR LLC has emerged as the winner of an auction to acquire CAMP Systems Inc., a seller of maintenance-tracking services to private aircraft owners, from fellow private-equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC, according to people ...

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    China Deals Blow to Buyout Firms

    WSJ.com

    BEIJING—In a blow to overseas private-equity firms that invest in China, the government's chief economic-planning agency ruled that all of the money in their funds must come from Chinese investors, or the funds will be treated as foreign.

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    ResCap Nears Bankruptcy Filing

    WSJ.com

    The board of Ally Financial Inc.'s ailing mortgage unit is expected to meet Sunday to authorize a bankruptcy filing, said people familiar with the situation.

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    Voras Hedge Fund to Close

    WSJ.com

    Former Morgan Stanley co-President Zoe Cruz has told investors that she is closing the hedge fund she started two years ago, after it was hobbled by disappointing performance and failed to attract as many investors as she had hoped, said ...

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    Carlyle's Hoped-For Pop Goes Poof

    WSJ.com

    Carlyle Group LP's shares didn't pop, but they also didn't drop. The private-equity giant's common units, as shares of these types of companies are known, opened just above their initial-public-offering price of $22 and hovered around that ...

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    Hedge Funds Hurt by Volatility

    WSJ.com

    Stock-trading hedge funds looking to extend their first-quarter rebound ran into a familiar adversary this month: a nervous market. Amid renewed concerns over Europe's debt crisis, the strength of the U.S. economy and doubts about China's ...

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    Ex-Trader at Enron to Retire From Hedge Fund

    WSJ.com

    John D. Arnold, a former star trader at Enron Corp. who went on become one of the energy markets' biggest speculators, is retiring from his hedge fund at 38 years old to focus on his philanthropic interests, a person familiar with the ...

  • Formula One Adds Banks for Singapore IPO

    WSJ.com

    SINGAPORE—Private-equity firm CVC Capital Partners has mandated UBS AG and Morgan Stanley as lead bankers to join Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on the more than $2.5 billion initial public offering in Singapore of its Formula One Group ...

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    Carlyle's Big Name May Not Generate Big Gains

    WSJ.com

    Shares of a big, high-profile company are slated to begin trading on Thursday, as private-equity firm Carlyle Group LP completes an initial public offering that could raise $762.5 million.

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    Nokia Blings Up Luxury Sale

    WSJ.com

    Nokia is selling its jewels. It is looking to sell luxury mobile-handset business Vertu, the maker of $300,000 diamond-clad phones, to private-equity group Permira for about $260 million, according to someone familiar with the talks. That ...

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    Carlyle Prices IPO at Lower Range

    WSJ.com

    Facing pushback from some investors, private-equity company Carlyle Group reduced the price for its widely anticipated public offering, a possible sign of the skepticism some investors harbor toward the business.

  • Eurohypo Unloads U.S. Loan Portfolio

    WSJ.com

    In a move to unload some of its U.S. real-estate assets, German lender Eurohypo AG has reached an agreement to sell a commercial-property loan portfolio with a face value of about $560 million to a team of Wells Fargo & Co. and ...

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    Qatar, Barclays in Asset-Management Deal

    WSJ.com

    DOHA—Qatar on Monday signed an asset-management deal with a private-equity unit of U.K.-based Barclays PLC, an agreement that will see the wealthy Gulf state co-invest $250 million in a push to broaden its commodities investment.

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    Providence Invests in Chernin Group

    WSJ.com

    An investor group led by private-equity investment firm Providence Equity Partners LLC made a "significant" investment in Chernin Group, an entertainment company led by former News Corp. executive Peter Chernin, the companies said.

  • Demand Media calls off talks to go private: report

    MarketWatch

    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Demand Media Inc. has abandoned talks to be taken private by Thomas H. Lee Partners, the tech blog AllThingsD reported Saturday.

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    Creditors Take Control of Atlantis Resort

    WSJ.com

    Resort operator Kerzner International Holdings Ltd. completed a long-awaited restructuring on Friday that transferred its massive Atlantis resort in the Bahamas to its creditors and sold its half interest in the Atlantis in Dubai to partner ...

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    The Other Side of the Lens

    WSJ.com

    "As Andrew Carnegie once said, 'No man can become rich without enriching others,'" recounted Sandy Weill, the financier and former chief executive of Citigroup, presiding over a group of bejeweled philanthropists at the Waldorf-Astoria ...

  • 5 stocks picked by billionaires; Commentary: It pays to know what the wealthiest investors are doing

    MarketWatch

    NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Billionaires and their various business interests make politics, and getting their man elected, of great importance.

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    Elpida Bondholders May Oppose Company Sale

    WSJ.com

    HONG KONG—A group of Elpida Memory Inc. bondholders said they are concerned about the failed Japanese chip maker being sold at an "undervalued" price in an auction closing this week, and are considering submitting their own alternative ...

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    Carlyle IPO a Tough Sell

    WSJ.com

    Ahead of its initial public offering, Carlyle Group LP is trying to persuade potential buyers it is different from rivals whose shares have struggled. Not all investors are convinced.

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    Gift Establishes Business School

    WSJ.com

    Like many proud graduates, Michael D. Madden, co-founder and managing partner of private-equity firm BlackEagle Partners LLC, credits his undergraduate years at Le Moyne College in Syracuse with giving him a solid foundation upon which to ...

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    Ex-CEO of Calpers Accused of Fraud

    WSJ.com

    The Securities and Exchange Commission accused a former Calpers chief executive and his close friend of scheming to defraud private-equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC into paying $20 million in fees to the friend's firm.

  • Starwood's Crystal Vision

    WSJ.com

    Trying to tap into Manhattan's hot market for luxury apartments and high-end hotels, Starwood Capital Group's Baccarat Hotels and Resorts is launching a plan to develop a project across from the Museum of Modern Art.

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    Silver Lake Buys Stake in WME Agency

    WSJ.com

    Private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners is buying a minority stake in leading talent agency William Morris Endeavor Entertainment in a deal that aims to help the agency build its clients' brands on digital platforms, the companies said.

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    The Alternative to Shareholder Class Actions; The SEC blocks arbitration without any explanation.

    WSJ.com

    Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission rejected attempts by the Carlyle Group, and proposals by stockholders of Pfizer and Gannett, to mandate arbitration rather than litigation in disputes between investors and management. The ...

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    Molson Coors Taps Eastern Europe; North American Brewer Wins Contest to Acquire Czech Republic's StarBev With $3.54 Billion Offer

    WSJ.com

    Molson Coors Brewing Co. is expanding its footprint in Europe's emerging markets through a deal to acquire Central and East European brewer StarBev LP for €2.65 billion ($3.54 billion), edging out several global rivals interested in the ...

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    Chesapeake Boosts Coffers

    WSJ.com

    HOUSTON—Chesapeake Energy Corp., the nation's second-largest natural-gas producer, said Monday it raised $2.6 billion in three deals as it struggles with decade-low gas prices.

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    Two Pros Weigh In on U.S. Stocks: Ben Inker's Bearish View

    WSJ.com

    Ben Inker, head of asset allocation at investment firm Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. in Boston, which managed $97 billion for clients as of the end of 2011.

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    AT&T to Sell Yellow Pages to Cerberus

    WSJ.com

    AT&T Inc. said it planned to sell a majority stake in its Yellow Pages business to private-equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP for $950 million in cash and debt, shedding one of its legacy businesses as wireless profits boom.

 

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