Investment Guide

NEW YORK, NY — Private equity firms had a successful first half of 2011 as asset prices appreciated. On the downside, as The Wall Street Journal reported this week, these companies may face headwinds in the second half of the year as...

Press Releases Provided by: Create E-mail Alert August 8, 2011 8:30 AM EDT ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (WRIT) (NYSE: WRE) has entered into several contracts...

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U.S. venture capital investment in green technology plunged 44% in the second quarter to $1.1 billion from the record set in the second quarter of 2010, according to a report issued Wednesday by Ernst Young. Investment rose 8%, however, from the...

At Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of Barclays, analysts estimate that profits could have fallen by about 40pc to just over £2bn in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2010. Royal Bank of Scotland is...

[July 28, 2011] ZUG, Switzerland --(Business Wire)-- SurePure Investment Holding AG (SurePure) has entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with SOEFL, Inc. (Soefl) (OTCBB: SOEF), with unanimous approvals of...

First firm to use technology that grades trade idea performance New York -- ING Investment Management has adopted Bloomberg’s proprietary research management platform to share ideas globally and track the effectiveness of...

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (BAM) hired Raymond Crosby at the company’s investment unit to help oversee funds for insurers pressured by low interest rates on their fixed-income portfolios. Crosby joins from rival...

JAKARTA, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia recorded a 13 percent investment growth in the first half 2011 to 115.6 trillion rupiah (about 13.56 billion U.S. dollars) compared to the same period last year, the country's largest news portal detik.com...

July 19 | Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:03am EDT July 19 (Reuters) - U.S. money manager Federated Investment Management Co has filed a complaint against Countrywide Financial and its parent Bank of America Corp over...