Private Equity

Fortress Investment Group did well in the fourth quarter, and is looking to build on that success by focusing on sectors where it already has big investments.

Newly-formed private equity investment firm Weld North announced today that Steven Berger will be joining the firm as vice chairman and chief financial officer.

A creditors committee led by Davidson Kempner Capital Management is threatening to sell off the Fortress Investment Group-owned ski resort hosting next month's Winter Olympics during the games.

Former Man Group CEO Stanley Fink’s green investment and private equity firm is expanding its renewable ambit with a trio of hires.

Hedge funds giveth, and hedge funds taketh away.

A hedge fund may be all that stands in the way of private equity veteran Tom Hicks’ deal to sell his baseball team in an effort to retire more than $500 million in defaulted debt.

Jeff Bernstein was a co-manager of Galleon Group's $1.2 billion flagship Diversified Fund.

The carried-interest tax loophole will not be closed, a member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee said, which means that hedge fund and private equity fund managers won’t see their tax bills double this year.

Private equity veteran Tom Hicks has finally struck a deal to sell the Texas Rangers baseball team, more than nine months after his sports holding company defaulted on more than $500 million in loans.

Atlanta-based manager of alternative investment products Infinity Capital Partners and boutique investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners have teamed up to invest as much as $100 million in transportation.