Carlyle Group’s chairman Louis Gerstner sees the current private equity world beset by a correction, not a crisis.

As an emerging markets investment opportunity, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been overshadowed over the past couple of years by the focus on Asia and Latin America and especial

In summer 2007 hedge funds found themselves being the target of erroneous and adverse media coverage, implying that the sub-prime crisis – and the liquidity squeeze that followed thereafter – was s

Boston-based international law firm Brown Rudnick has brought together professionals from its structured finance, bankruptcy and corporate restructuring and distressed debt practices to fo

London-based absolute return investment manager RAB Capital has announced the appointment of Gary Pitts as chief compliance officer.

The International Securities Exchange, the world’s largest equity options exchange, and international derivatives exchange Eurex have announced plans to develop a new options trading syste

Traded life policy manager Managing Partners Limited has developed an index for the sector, tracking the size of five funds specialising in traded life policies – the Traded Policies Fund,

The institution of a currency board in 1997 has brought monetary stability to Bulgaria and helped the government to achieve regular fiscal surpluses, says a new report from analysts Desislava Nickolov

Trading in OTC derivatives has grown dramatically in the last few years and firms have faced a number of challenges in processing and settling these trades in a timely way.

Leading institutional and private investors in the Middle East have long been an important source of capital for some of the world’s biggest and longest-established hedge fund managers, and the reg