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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Graham Packaging and 7 Days Group Holdings File for IPO	Two new companies submitted initial filings for their IPOs on Monday.Graham Packaging (GP), which supplies plastic containers for nutrition, hygiene and home care products, filed to raise up to $350 million. The York, PA-based company, which booked $2.3 billion in sales over the last 12 months, did not disclose underwriters or pricing terms in its initial filing. ...	November 04, 2009
The Quants Must be Crazy	As a number of historically top-ranked long/short managers have decided get out of the LP game, there is another pocket - a quieter, more stealthy pocket - of the hedge fund universe that is heating up to bubble-like proportions: high frequency statistical arbitrage trading. Where long/short managers were once the kings of the hill, the AUM titans that could move markets with the mere awareness of their interest in a particular security, the secretive, underground, geeky uber-quant crowd is now ...	June 04, 2009
The Quants Must be Crazy	As a number of historically top-ranked long/short managers have decided get out of the LP game, there is another pocket - a quieter, more stealthy pocket - of the hedge fund universe that is heating up to bubble-like proportions: high frequency statistical arbitrage trading. Where long/short managers were once the kings of the hill, the AUM titans that could move markets with the mere awareness of their interest in a particular security, the secretive, underground, geeky uber-quant crowd is now ...	June 04, 2009
Seatwave Scores $17 Million In Fourth Funding Round	Seatwave, the UK-based upstart behind the eponymous marketplace for secondary tickets, has landed $17 million in Series D funding led by Accel Partners with Atlas Venture, Mangrove Capital Partners, Fidelity Ventures and Adinvest joining the round, writes Atlas partner Fred Destin on his blog. Recently named Europe’s fastest growing digital media company by investment bank GP Bullhound, Seatwave allows fans to trade theatre, sport and music tickets online and thus competes (hard) with Tick...	June 01, 2009
Carlyle Group: Humbler, but in Many Ways Bigger	Laura Kreutzer, of Private Equity Analyst, reports: Carlyle Group may have been “humbled” in 2008 as it suffered some body blows in the weakened economy, the firm’s second annual report makes clear its own business still expanded, even as its employee ranks and the total volume of its commitments to its funds contracted. The Washington private-equity firm wrapped up 10 funds in 2008 and 2009, raising a total of $19.9 billion in new capital to deploy, according to the 2008 annua...	May 29, 2009
Prospect of LP Defaults Is Very Real for PE Fund Managers	The editors of Dow Jones sister publication Private Equity Analyst report: How worried are private-equity-fund managers that their investors might not be able to meet capital calls? Very, if the results of a new survey by Private Equity Analyst are any indication. The Sources of Capital survey asked fund managers, also known as general partners, to rank how important a variety of characteristics of investors, or limited Partners, are to them. Of respondents, 84.8% listed an ability to meet capit...	May 22, 2009
The Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns of PE Valuations	Laura Kreutzer, of Private Equity Analyst, reports: Private-equity fund investors were hoping for some clarity on the value of their stakes in the economic downturn once year-end reports from managers came in. But with the majority of year-end valuations in, the picture is murkier than ever. Fire & Police Pension Association of Colorado Chief Investment Officer Scott Simon says general partners–as fund managers are known in industry lingo–in his institution’s portfolio wrot...	May 14, 2009
Should Google Be Paranoid About Losing The Android Name?	The name “Android” is at the very core of Google’s mobile initiative. It’s even successfully gotten people to move away from calling the devices “Google Phones” or “GPhones,” something which seemed impossible prior to the unveiling. But Google may be in serious trouble of losing that name — or at least having to pay a hell of a lot of money to keep it. Erich Specht, a man who runs a small Midwestern data company, applied for and was granted a...	April 30, 2009
Android “Cupcake” Build Nearly Golden Brown	Four months of discovery and hearsay later, the Android build that we’ve all been waiting for is nigh. Run inside, everyone - run inside and charge your G1s, for Cupcake (Firmware v1.5) is nearly upon us. (Actually, it’s still a few weeks away. But you should charge your G1 anyway, seeing as it’s a G1 and the day is halfway over, so the battery’s probably almost dead.) The Android Developers Blog announced today the availability of an “early look” Android 1....	April 13, 2009
Putting the Partner’ Back in Limited Partner	Laura Kreutzer, of Private Equity Analyst, reports: Deborah Foye Kuenstner, chief investment officer of the Wellesley College endowment, jokes that she is writing the outline for a book on “bad GP behavior.” “Even if they’ve had good results in the past, if they’re not acting like a good partner, they’re dead to me,” Kuenstner said, speaking on a panel at a recent private equity conference sponsored by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan...	April 07, 2009

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