Cliffwater LLC and Virtus Investments form new advisory firm

The new venture of Cliffwater LLC and Virtus Investments would be called Cliffwater Investments. Multi manager asset management business operator Virtus Investment Partners together with leading advisory firm Cliffwater LLC announced the establishment of Cliffwater Investments LLC.


Former Co-op chief says executives have doubts over viability of Lloyds banking unit acquisition

Former Co-operative Group chief executive Barry Tootell said he and other company executives had doubts over the capability of the mutual fund to acquire 632 Lloyds Banking Group branches for USD750 million.

Video advertisements make Rockabox highly enticing

With the projected growth of video advertising, Rockabox opens a Series A funding round worth GBP3 million.

Intellectual Ventures insists on high royalties for patent licenses from Symantec, Trend Micro

Intellectual Ventures (IV) wanted to collect a combined USD310 million in patent licensing fees from security firms Symantec and Trend Micro.


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