Mergers & acquisitions (M&A)
Merger arbitrage experiences resurgence
But strategy sees spreads under pressure
Asia Energy Finance House of the Year: SG CIB
SG CIB has been involved in a raft of eye-catching energy finance deals across Asia during the past year
Data, delays and loss of focus: operational risks in M&A
When two become one
Implementation of Basel III capital ratios on Korean banks to drive subordinate debt issuance
Basel III capital requirements in Korea expected to dampen down M&A and ramp up issuance of subordinated debt
Hadron Alpha Select Fund: Hadron Capital
13th Annual European Single Manager Awards 2013
Principal muscles into FoHF sector with Liongate stake
US asset manager Principal Global Investors acquires majority stake in FoHF manager as traditional distributors move into the struggling sector
Man Group plans hedge fund acquisitions and expansion of US business
Man Group is looking at opportunities for acquisitions and establishing a larger presence in the US hedge fund market.
Ex-UBS Adoboli supervisor hired in Knight takeover
UBS-dominated management team formed as Getco prepares to take over Knight Capital
Flurry of deals as big asset managers target stakes in hedge funds
The past couple of months have seen six established hedge funds sell minority stakes to large fund managers, including Neuberger Berman and GAM
Mariner absorbs Concordia as hedge fund consolidation gathers pace
Concordia Advisors, which manages around $1 billion in relative value-oriented interest rate, credit and equity strategies, is to merge with $10 billion hedge fund Mariner Investment Group.
MKP sells stake to Dyal and bolsters senior management team
Private equity fund Dyal Capital Partners has made its fifth hedge fund investment with the purchase of a minority stake in MKP, a hedge fund manager specialising in global macro and credit strategies.
Culture, acquisitions and regulation at Scotiabank
An acquisitive spirit
Deal of the Year, Asia: Deutsche Bank
Deal of the Year, Asia: Deutsche Bank
Duke-Progress deal a win for alliances, nuclear power
Duke-Progress deal a win for alliances, nuclear power
New S&P Dow Jones venture to compete with banks not index providers
Merger of S&P Indices and Dow Jones Indexes will fuel more competition with banks than other index providers, say market participants
Power and utilities M&A declines in volume but grows in value: Ernst & Young
Slow global economic recovery led to weak M&A activity in the global power and utilities sector in the first quarter of 2012, but deal value increased almost 20% from the previous quarter
Dash to leave S&P Indices ahead of merger with Dow Jones Indexes
Srikant Dash will leave S&P Indices on June 1 after 12 years at the company, to be replaced by Jim Bailey. Dash's departure will come a month ahead of the merger with Dow Jones Indexes that will see S&P's Alex Matturi take over as CEO of the merged entity
Structured Products Technology Rankings 2012
Shuffling the pack
Case study: Friends Life’s investment governance framework
Breathing new life
Marsh CRO: takeovers, outsourcing and technology are top op risks
On top of the ops
Hellman & Friedman to buy OpenLink
New-York-based commodity software firm OpenLink has announced its owners The Carlyle Group will sell it to a US private equity firm
Shifting towards specialism will provide integrated oil companies with best returns says AT Kearney
Optimum shareholder value in the oil and gas sector is likely to come from a specialist approach rather than the traditional integrated oil company model, according to a recent report by management consulting firm AT Kearney
SEC freezes $32.5 million of Swiss entities' assets
Court favours insider-trading suspicions in Arch Chemicals case