Private equity groups raised record funds in 2006: industry
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Private equity companies in Europe raised a record 112 billion euros (150 billion dollars) in 2006, an increase of 56.4 percent compared with 2005, industry association EVCA said Tuesday.
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The company plans to more than double its output by 2006.
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Venture capital investments in U.S. startups climb to a six-year high of $29.4 billion in 2007, raising hope that ample money will still be available to back promising new ideas even if the staggering economy falls into a recession.
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Vornado raised its bid to $56 a share in cash and stock, or $41 billion, topping a bid of $54 a share from the private equity giant Blackstone Group.
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Blackstone Group LP, the biggest U.S. initial public offering since 2002, raised $4.13 billion on Thursday, becoming the largest private equity firm to go public.
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The Carlyle Group isn't accustomed to failure. Over the past 15 years, it has built itself into one of the world's biggest and most successful private-equity funds by seeing value where others didn't. For most of that time, its risks have been carefully calculated, its timing nearly impeccable.
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Investor Warren Buffett may hold the title as America's top donor, but his well-heeled competitors helped make 2006 a record year for charitable giving, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported on Friday.
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Prosperous alumni helped make 2006 a record fund-raising year for colleges and universities, which hauled in $28 billion -- a 9.4 percent jump from 2005.
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This weekâs $37 billion in acquisitions and a new $12 billion fund have catapulted Apollo Group and its founder, Leon Black, into the upper echelons of private equity.
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A pullback in commercial property  lending has raised questions about whether a recent surge in  real estate investment trust buyouts signaled a peak for  private equity funds.
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Investor's Business Daily - Investors slowed their investing into stock mutual funds in December. But a fourth-quarter market surge sent total fund assets to a record &#36;8.1 trillion in December.
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Mutual fund investors are right to wonder and worry about the costs they are paying to own their shares -- $37 billion went into funds with loads in 2006.
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The initial public offerings of 67 venture capital-funded U.S. companies raised &#36;4.98 billion in 2004, more than tripling from the &#36;1.41 billion raised in 22 deals during 2003, VentureOne said on Saturday.
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Private equity firms not only are causing the mergers and acquisitions market to expand, but they're also starting to speed up the auction process.
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With $71.4 billion under management, Washington's Carlyle Group is easily the dean of private-equity firms in the region. But several alumni are beginning to attract notice in their own right.
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U.S.-based venture capital investments reached their highest point last year since 2001 with software remaining the strongest category, according to The MoneyTree Report, released this week by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).VC firms sunk some $29.4 billion into 3,813 U.S. deals in 2007, according to the report.Software-related VC funding once again received the most money with $5.3 billion, compared to $5.1 billion in 2006, according to the report, which used data from Thomson Financial.VC spending on other technology categories also rose. Funding for computer- and peripheral-based interests was $580 million, up from $497 million in 2006; IT services, $1.3 billion, compared to $1.1 billion in 2006; networking and equipment, $1.25 billion, compared to $1.1 billion the previous year.However, semiconductor VC investment fell to $1.85 billion, from $2.14 billion in 2006. Telecommunication also saw a slowdown, falling to $2.14 billion, compared to $2.6 billion in 2006.While the VC market has hardly bounced back from its boom year -- 2000, when spending stood at $105 billion according to NVCA -- it has slowly crawled back to life. A low point came in 2003, when VC investments were a mere $19.7 billion, NVCA data shows.Major software vendors employ varying strategies toward the VC market. While some companies, notably Sun, infuse cash into startup companies through funds of their own, others, such as IBM, take a different tack, working with VC firms to analyze their portfolios and spot companies that could be potential future partners.&quot;We&#39;re not in the venture investment business,&quot; said Claudia Fan Munce, managing director of IBM&#39;s venture capital group and vice president of corporate strategy.&quot;The due diligence process today is much, much heavier,&quot; Munce remarked of the current climate. But as the report&#39;s numbers indicate, venture investing is far from dead. &quot;They&#39;re coming back in a very different way. They&#39;re not just looking at Silicon Valley,&quot; Munce said.According to the study released this week, U.S.-based VCs invested $1.1 billion in India and $1.4 billion in China, record highs for U.S. investments in those nations (The numbers are not included in the study&#39;s aggregate totals, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.).
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Swiss Re, the world's largest reinsurance group, reported on Thursday record net profits of 4.6 billion Swiss francs (2.88 billion euros, 3.80 billion dollars) for 2006, up 98 percent from the previous year.