Fortress Investment raises $634 mln
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Fortress Investment Group LLC on Thursday raised $634 million with an initial public offering, the first such move by a diversified U.S. private equity and hedge fund.
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U.S. factory growth stayed strong in  September, according to reports on Friday, while construction  spending hit a record high in August for a seventh month in a  row, showing the economy's expansion remains solid.
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After raising $634 million in last nightâs offering, a hedge fund gets a warm reception in its first minutes of trading.
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Northern Ireland Electricity and its southern counterpart ESB have made an investment of 19.6mn($24.3m), including 6.5m of European Regional Development Fund support, in the interconnectors which will increase ...
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London (ots/PRNewswire) - Eurocastle Investment Limited (LSE: ECT), an investment company managed by Fortress Investment Group LLC, today announced the acquisition of a portfolio of 109 properties from Deutsche Bank AG for approximately Euro 300 million.
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- Asset management firm BlackRock Inc.  said it agreed to acquire the fund of funds business of Quellos Group LLC for up to $1.7 billion.
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Buyout firm Fortress Investment Group on Monday raised its offer for Stelmar Shipping Ltd. (SJH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) by about 4 percent to $703 million, but Stelmar&#39;s
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Russian real estate group PIK announced on Friday that it will raise 1.85 billion dollars (1.38 billion euros) in a partial stock market flotation which valued the group at 12.3 billion dollars.
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Stelmar Shipping Ltd. (SJH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , an oil tanker operator, has agreed to be acquired by affiliates of private equity firm Fortress Investment Group LLC for $677 million in cash, Stelmar said on Monday.
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Lone Star Funds, which tried and failed to acquire Bankgesellchaft Berlin AG last year, agreed to buy 3.6 billion euros ($4.4 billion) in mostly defaulted German loans, the biggest such purchase in the country.
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- Asset management firm BlackRock Inc.  said it agreed to acquire the fund of funds business of Quellos Group LLC for up to $1.7 billion, in a move to expand its alternative investment operations.
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Private equity firm Fortress  Investment Group LLC agreed to buy Stelmar Shipping Ltd. for  $677 million only a few months after the oil tanker operator  fended off a hostile bid from its rival, OMI Corp. OMM.N,  Stelmar said on Monday.
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US investment fund Steel Partners II on Thursday offered to buy 90 percent of Gencorp Inc. (GY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) it does not already own for about $700 million
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Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds rose by &#36;906.8 million in the latest week to &#36;833.01 billion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
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Private equity firm Fortress  Investment Group LLC has agreed to buy oil tank operator  Stelmar Shipping Ltd. SJH.N for $677 million, Stelmar said on  Monday.
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The private-equity firm invests more than 10% of its assets in the latest quarter.
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GlobalSecure Holdings Ltd. , a District-based private-equity investment firm that has bought three homeland security companies in the past year, last week wrapped up raising $23.5 million. Armed with this cash, it's aggressively searching for more companies in this field.