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NORTH AMERICA NEWS CONTINUED FUNDS AND BUYSIDENORTH AMERICA NEWS CONTINUED FUNDS AND BUYSIDE 2008-11-01 Staff Writer Paladin Capital Group has closed its third homeland-security fund on $340 million. The Washington DC firm is led by former CIA head James Woolsey, as well as a former director of the US National Security
- INSURING THE INSURERS
Warburg Pincus is boldly going where its peers are not: deeper into the US bond insurance market.
- THE CURSE OF LONO
Hawaii is proving to be no paradise for private equity.
- CHEMICAL ROMANCE
Barry Siadat has left Arsenal Capital to raise a fund focussed on global speciality chemicals.
- CARLYLE'S LACUNAE
The firm is taking steps to ensure it has energy and hedge fund strategies in place prior to going public.
- CARLYLE ON CAMPUS
The US private equity firm continues to be active in the Latin American education market, most recently with the $40m acquisition of a Chilean university.
- FLYING HIGH
TPG-controlled XOJET has secured nearly $2.5bn in debt and equity as it goes head-to-head with Warren Buffet-backed NetJets.
- REAP WHAT YOU SOW
New York-based Shermen Capital Partners recently launched a SPAC to capitalise on what it maintains is an untapped market: the $271bn US agriculture industry.
- STATE STREET LAUNCHES PERFORMANCE INDEX
The new service opens up a treasure trove of historic returns information.
- ALTERNATIVE ASCENSION(2)
As Merrill Lynch, Citi and Morgan Stanley reeled from the sub-prime meltdown, alternative investment executives loomed as potential saviors.