Asia Day Ahead: Merrill Said to Reduce Bonuses 50% (Update1) - Bloomberg

Asia Day Ahead: Merrill Said to Reduce Bonuses 50% (Update1) Bloomberg - 23 hours ago Fortress Investment Group LLC, the private equity and asset manager, halted redemptions from its Drawbridge Global Macro hedge fund after investors asked to ...

Piracy V. Private Equity: A Comparison - Wall Street Journal Blogs

Piracy V. Private Equity: A Comparison Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - Nov 19, 2008 Private equity: Treated with scorn in the past. Famously dubbed Barbarians at the Gate in the 1988 book on KKR’s takeover of RJR Nabisco. ... The Ships That Get Away New York Times Blogs all 2 news articles

Mortgage applications up 112.1% last week, due to drop in rates: MBA - MarketWatch

Mortgage applications up 112.1% last week, due to drop in rates: MBA MarketWatch - Dec 3, 2008 The problem is many people have lost so much equity they can not get an appraisal to meet the necessary loan to value ratios. Even people who put 20% down ...

Private equity backed Accord eyes uranium mines - Reuters

Private equity backed Accord eyes uranium mines Reuters - Nov 26, 2008 Accord Nuclear Resources was set up in August this year in the UK and United States as a strategic joint venture with the US-based private equity group ...

Three Ways To Float A Sinking Boat - Forbes

Three Ways To Float A Sinking Boat Forbes, NY - Dec 2, 2008 UBS, for example, contributes $6 billion of equity to the fund and sells it $60 billion of risky assets that have been marked to market. ...