Conflicting Housing Market Data?

Real Estate markets are inefficient and involve non-homogenous assets being negotiated and purchased by private parties ... and insight on your local market. Integrated Asset Services provides full service asset management ... the National Association of Realtors’ Housing Affordability Index. They take into account access [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 16:24:41

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McCain's Fak-o-nomics - Fake Solutions for Real Problems

After the startling bailout of AIG last night, and the current day market's 200-300 point drop in response, Senator McCain (finally) ... s asset management group — it includes a private banking subsidiary for the wealthy, a broker dealer ... management, and a casino culture on Wall Street that has crippled one of the most important companies [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 18:34:55

Bulging Side Pockets: Turning Hedge Funds into Private Equity Funds?

Many hedge funds are in trouble. Whether due to bad security selection, issues that were once considered liquid that now "trade by appointment" ... . This has placed tremendous pressure on managers who are not only depressed to see management fees drop ... . These assets generally attract management fees but not performance fees until sold. The more assets [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 20:26:12

Rates drop, Lots of news, Housing bill update, Minimum wage increase today: mortgage workers rejoice!

What time of day am I most likely to have a heart attack? ... s earnings beat analysts’ forecasts, despite falling 62% to $1.16 billion because of smaller asset write-downs than expected and as its investment bank, private bank and asset management business [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 13:17:06

Real Estate Market Case Shiller ETFs almost here

Getting closer to reality: Yesterday Bob Shiller's firm MacroMarkets announced that they've cleared the final approval for their exchange-traded ... Housing will provide investors with much needed access to the housing asset class, allowing ... , transparent, market based risk management solutions. Ongoing private sector innovation remains a vital [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 16:00:55

Global Investing Roundups Friday, November 21st, 2008

GMAC Files to Become a Bank; Unemployment Nears 26-Year High; Mogul Signals Interest in Circuit City; Banco do Brasil Buying Out Rival; ... company GMAC has filed to become a bank, a shot at getting a slice of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout. Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP owns 51% of GMAC. General [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 11:43:06

DLF Assets To Raise $450M From JPMorgan, TPG?

DLF Assets (DAL), the property fund of DLF, will raise around $450 million from a cluster of private equity investors including JP Morgan Asset Management, Texas Pacific Group and others, reports CNBC-TV18, quoting investment banking sources ... has raised $450 million from Symphony Capital, a London based investment firm in May this year. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 08:07:01

SAC Capital (Steven Cohen): Hedge Fund Portfolio Tracking - 13F Filing Q3 2008

This is the 3rd Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund portfolio tracking series ... , “SAC is a multi-strategy, private asset management firm founded by Steven A. Cohen in 1992 ... , Global Quantitative Strategies, Fixed Income and Credit, Global Macro Strategies, Convertible Bonds [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:07:32

Afternoon Reading: Will Lehman Take Its Ball and Go Home?

Will Lehman Brothers Holdings go private? A day after Fox-Pitt Kelton analyst David Trone suggested Lehman go private, ... that Lehman’s asset-management unit, formerly known as Neuberger Berman, could fetch. Writes Portfolio.com’ [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 09:18:00

Gordon Brown: Step-Skipper

For some months now there’s a being a bit of amnesia about how we got to this point in the global banking crisis ... management entity and a slimmed down recapitalized system was returned to the private sector ... of the US Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program.   The Gordon Brown approach was praised to an extent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 03:11:25

PE Fund-Raising Declines for First Time Since 2003

Sabrina Willmer, of Private Equity Analyst, files this dispatch on one body blow private-equity firms have taken from the financial crisis ... their private-equity percentage allocation targets because of the marked decline in the stock markets. “ ... over-weighted in the asset class,” said Donn Cox, managing director at LP Capital Advisors. “ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 18:27:00

Creating “Mini-TARP” Bonus Pools Would Help

Good Evening: As 2008 bumps, grinds, and otherwise limps its way to a close, various asset markets can be expected to trade in narrow ranges ... , but management at Credit Suisse may have found a way that could, if widely adopted on the Street, put private [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 04:55:44

in Investing With everyone tsk-tsking the Madoff scandal -- the amount lost, the after-the-fact obviousness, ... -- at least, when compared with the heavy lifting of equity research. The asset management ... assets group, private wealth management, (even retail brokerage) have access to these funds [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:32:35

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