Private equity tycoon Sir Ronald Cohen is set to receive more than £10m from the Government and the Big Lottery Fund to back his latest venture aimed at cutting Britain's reoffending rate.
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Blaming President Obama for weak equity prices
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FT on 26th Aug 2010 (via ft.com)
I once worked at the bank Merrill Lynch. During the tech-boom, one of Merrill’s analysts, Henry Blodget, an expert on technology companies, would write equity research – essentially buy or sell recommendations – that the bank’s stockbrokers would use to recommend securities to their clients. However, while he was publishing reports saying that certain securities were instan...
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LiberalConspiracy on 16th Aug 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Labour’s relentless pursuit of the cancelled Sheffield Forgemasters’ loan is finally paying dividends. The government maintain that the loan was cancelled because the directors did not want to reduce their shareholding. It has emerged that, possibly, the directors did in fact offer to reduce their equity – a point that Jack Straw attempted to make at yesterday’s dire PMQs. ...
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Spectator on 23rd Jul 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Anthony Ward: Armajaro’s food plans include setting up a private equity fund later this year that will invest in ports and roads, farmland and storage facilities in Africa, as well as schools and other infrastructure. Cocoa will remain a key target commodity, but Mr
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TimWorstall on 19th Jul 2010 (via timworstall.com)
The hedge funds row might soon be over, say EU sources, which claim private equity regulation is in sight. Reportedly, funds will likely be able to choose between getting an EU passport to gain access to national markets or getting the private and less stringent licences that they are used to.
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EurActiv on 19th Jul 2010 (via euractiv.com)
Plans to use money from the sale of assets to provide the riskiest of equity investment in projects such as offshore wind and carbon capture have been cancelled by the coalition government
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FT on 15th Jul 2010 (via ft.com)
Recent days have seen a big sell off in world equity markets. Markets are never wrong, but they can change their mind tomorrow. Like daily elections, they represent the combined wisdom of everyone involved. We trawl through them , trying to interpret them,
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JohnRedwood on 2nd Jul 2010 (via johnredwoodsdiary.com)
Congressional negotiators closed in on a financial reform compromise that bans banks from proprietary trading but allows some investment in hedge funds and private equity firms
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FT on 25th Jun 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)