{"id":10815,"date":"2009-06-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"carlyle-group-sets-sights-on-battered-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/carlyle-group-sets-sights-on-battered-banks.html","title":{"rendered":"Carlyle Group Sets Sights On Battered Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free Internet Press &#8211; With the leveraged-buyout business on life support, major private-equity firms such as the Carlyle Group are taking a closer look at the battered banking sector as a way to make money for their clients.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, Washington, D.C.-based Carlyle invested $75 million in Boston Private Financial Holdings. Last month, it was part of a group that injected $900 million into Florida&#8217;s BankUnited. Carlyle was part of a group looking to buy Atlanta, Georgia-based Silverton Bank earlier this month, until regulators decided to liquidate the institution instead.<\/p>\n<p>Private-equity firms have long eyed the financial services industry, but the sector took a back seat over the past two decades as private equity pursued fat returns fueled by leveraged-buyout deals. Until recently, those buyouts helped Carlyle generate an annual net return of 26 percent across the firm.. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/freeinternetpress.com\/story.php?sid=21689\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/freeinternetpress.com\/story.php%3Fsid%3D21689\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free Internet Press &#8211; With the leveraged-buyout business on life support, major private-equity firms such as the Carlyle Group are taking a closer look at the battered banking sector as a way to make money for their clients. Last September, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13038,13037,1398,13036,13034,2858,227,1038,5864,13033,1722,1088,5398,45,13035,13039,13040],"class_list":["post-10815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-atlanta-georgia","tag-back-seat","tag-banking-sector","tag-bankunited","tag-boston-private-financial-holdings","tag-buyouts","tag-carlyle-group","tag-decades","tag-financial-services-industry","tag-free-internet-press","tag-last-september","tag-leveraged-buyout","tag-private-equity-firms","tag-regulators","tag-taking-a-closer-look","tag-washington-d-c","tag-way-to-make-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}