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Robust PE Deals in Europe Cooled Last Year From 2018’s Blistering...
Europe’s private-equity market remained “robust” last year but the value of the deals done slipped from 2018’s record levels, according to Pitchbook.
Magnetar Raising $400 Million for Healthcare Fund as Private Money Piles...
Magnetar Capital, which has made billions on its energy and infrastructure bets, is joining others who are seeing green lights flashing in...
Davos Founder Shifts Focus to “Stakeholders” from 1973’s “Shareholders” in New...
Davos summit founder Klaus Schwab sees a broader purpose in companies than he did nearly 50 years ago, as he calls for,...
Bank of America Looks to Offer Broader, More Sustainable Portfolios to...
You may not immediately utter social impact and Bank of America in the same breath, but the giant lender kicked off its...
Amazon Debuts Service Enabling Doctors to Dictate Notes in Real Time
Amazon’s latest step in using technology to make healthcare more effective is simple: A voice-technology service that enables medical providers to spend...
Small Banks See Tech Giants as Biggest Future Threats, Survey Finds
Smaller, retail banks no longer see their biggest competitive threat coming from inside their industry but rather from the efforts by global...
Israel’s Vayyar, Whose Sensors ‘See’ Through Walls, Lands Another Big Funding...
Vayyar Imaging, whose sensors are used in breast cancer detection, robotic arms and on retail shelves, lined up another round of funds...
Purdue Pharma Took a Page from Big Tobacco & Oil in...
Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma cultivated sympathetic writers and funded think tanks as part of an aggressive media campaign aimed at countering negative...
Relax Everybody, TikTok’s Zhu Says He’ll Defy China’s Leader if the...
TikTok isn’t the threat that U.S. legislators and security experts are making it out to be, the Chinese video app’s chief said,...
International Finance Group Proposes New, Simpler Language for Sustainable Investing Terms
New guidelines released today by the Institute of International Finance aim to clear up the language used to describe sustainable investment and...
Investors Betting on “Ethical” Data Mining in Amid Rising Privacy Worries
As data mining expands, so too, do users’ concerns over how to keep their data from falling into the hands of the...
More Than “Bumper Sticker Debates”: Karma’s Takeaways from HLTH 2019
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Last week, more than 6,000 attendees — from executives,...
SoftBank Curbs Excesses of Startup Founders After WeWork Debacle
SoftBank tightened the reins to curb the excesses of startup founders after the spectacular, multi-billion dollar failure of WeWork forced the tech...
Wanted: Private Equity Firms Seek ESG Professionals in a Push to...
Private equity firms, responding to surging demand for ethical investing opportunities, plan on hiring more professionals focused on environmental, social and governance...
Advancing the Impact Investing Narrative: Three Takeaways from SOCAP19
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More than 3,000 investors, entrepreneurs and executives convened at...
KKR Finds Private Equity Dealmaking Harder in Booming Stock Market
While KKR pulled off edutech, fintech and real estate deals in the third-quarter, the private equity investor’s profit slipped, a victim of the...
Want to Release the Animal Spirits? Break the Glass Ceiling, Study...
Key Takeaway: Gender diversity can pay off for investors as companies that...
Australian Doctors Call Climate Change “Irreversible” Health Crisis
Climate change has become an “irreversible” health crisis in Australia with dire consequences for the Asia-Pacific nation, including an increase in potentially...
Acai, Snake Venom, Cocoa: Amazon Survival, Post-Inferno, May Hinge on Sustainable...
Amazon’s fires may be calming down, but the battle for the future of the world’s biggest tropical rainforest is far from over.