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.

Blaming President Obama for weak equity prices

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...

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. ...

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

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. 

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

The Coalition, now in its most confident phase, is starting the process of changing the fabric of Britain to reflect its shared beliefs. We are inexorably going to be moved away from our traditional NHS approach to one ruled by the false idols of choice, competition and diversity of suppliers. Idols that would prove disastrous for the equity, efficacy and efficiency of Britain’s healthcare.

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,

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