Buyout companies are anxious to start investing after a dire couple of years. Deal flow slumped to a seven-year low this year as the crisis locked out access to financing; existing investments suffered and fund-raising slowed to a …

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Russell Chaplin, Global Real Estate Strategist, UBS Global Asset Management, shares his thoughts on the challenges real estate investment officers are currently faced with, the opportunities that have been created by the crisis and his …

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Property prices in the US have already dropped by almost a third from their peak, as the crisis spread from lower-paid sub-prime borrowers to engulf the entire housing market. But Roubini said there c…

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Large family businesses . Private investment suffered from the impact of the crisis and is projected to drop in 2009, relative to GDP. Large family-owned conglomerates were equally affected, due to their exposure to foreign markets and …

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Large family businesses . Private investment suffered from the impact of the crisis and is projected to drop in 2009, relative to GDP. Large family-owned conglomerates were equally affected, due to their exposure to foreign markets and …

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