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  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    How I’m staying calm when markets are uncertain

    Are you buying the dip, battening down the hatches or carrying on as normal?

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  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Fund management
    Blue Whale fund dumps Meta and Microsoft stakes

    Fund manager warns economic slowdown due to tariffs could hit Facebook owner’s revenues

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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Private equity
    US vet visits are down. A recession omen, or is price gouging to blame?

    Dissecting a dead-cat indicator

  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Markets InsightGustavo Medeiros
    Betting on Brazil’s economic collapse is a mistake

    The country offers investors an enticing value opportunity, but fiscal reform is urgently required

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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Exchange traded funds
    The belated CLO ETF stress test

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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Worldpay Inc
    Global Payments to buy Worldpay in $24bn deal

    Three-way transaction will hand fintech FIS control of Global Payments’ issuer solutions arm

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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    John Thornhill
    Three ideas to energise British tech

    A vibe shift is needed to close the gap between the UK and Silicon Valley

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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Barclays PLC
    Brookfield strikes deal for Barclays’ payments business

    Seven-year timeline set over which private equity group could buy 80% stake in unit

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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    LexMergers & Acquisitions
    Fire sales define moribund M&A market Premium content

    The best returns for buyers happen when bidding wars are scarce and sellers are desperate to lock in cash proceeds

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  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Telegraph Media Group Ltd
    Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird evaluating takeover of UK’s Telegraph newspaper

    Plan would reduce stake of Abu Dhabi-based IMI to overcome objections of British government on grounds of foreign control

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  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
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    Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ tariffs would be debilitating for poor nations, UN trade body warns Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, being a member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance just got a heck of a lot easier

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  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    UnhedgedAiden Reiter
    Emerging markets’ unexpected outperformance after “liberation day” Premium content

    It may not last forever

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  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Private equity
    Private equity goes ‘risk off’ as it pauses dealmaking

    Buyout executives say economic uncertainty unleashed by US tariffs has made pricing assets challenging

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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Blackstone Group LP
    Blackstone joins Vanguard to expand into individuals’ portfolios

    Big asset managers seek to bolster private offerings

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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Grant Thornton UK LLP
    Grant Thornton UK partners paid £682,000 as Cinven completes buyout

    Mid-tier firm MHA floats on London’s Aim as shake-up of sector gathers steam

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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Pensions dim on US private equity Premium content

    Plus, private equity group CVC scouts out private credit group and Intel sells off a stake in its chips unit

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  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Corporate bonds
    Risky corporate borrowers shut out of bond market since Trump’s tariff blitz

    Slowdown in high-yield bond market issuance threatens a tentative rebound in dealmaking

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  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Intel Corp
    Intel sells Altera chip unit to PE group Silver Lake

    Sale is part of plan by company to divest non-core assets

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  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Ageas SA/NV
    Belgian insurer Ageas agrees £1.3bn deal for UK’s Esure

    Acquisition will expand group’s motor and home insurance business

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  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    FT Asset Management
    Top pension funds cool on US

    Plus, Treasury market turmoil, gold surges, and David Hockney at Paris’s Fondation Vuitton

  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    KKR & Co LP
    KKR names US ex-general Petraeus chair of Mideast business

    CIA veteran to help spearhead private equity group’s expansion in oil-rich region

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  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Pensions industry
    Trump chaos prompts big pension funds to cool on US

    Rethink comes as tariffs and talk of territorial expansion stoke market instability and geopolitical tension

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  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    News in-depthTech start-ups
    UK start-ups consider switch to US as funding falls to post-pandemic low

    Leading British tech groups explore moving headquarters in effort to tap deep-pocketed American investors

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  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Private credit
    CVC weighed deal for US private lender Golub Capital

    Pursuit of firm founded by Lawrence Golub underscore sector’s deepening consolidation and shift towards credit

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  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Stockpickers: Geographic exposure puts Hilton Foods on the menu

    New markets offer plenty of growth potential

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