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Many Americans have recently found themselves changing retirement plans after losing a substantial amount of home equity as the housing market and the overall U.S. economy struggle.Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the US private equity firm that owns half of Channel Seven and the mining services provider BIS Industries, has flagged possible further expansion in Australia, appointing the Qantas chairman and former Rio Tinto boss Leigh Clifford as a senior adviser.At a time when liquidity has become more of a bane for start-ups as well as firms looking for expansion, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is organising a first-of-its-kind Venture Capital and Private Equity Conference on February 6 and 7, 2009.The sound system was iffy and the performances weren’t on the money, but the non-Equity touring production of “Annie” still found a way to work its will on an opening-night audience at the Music Hall.Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Private-equity investors led by Steven Mnuchin , a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive, agreed to buy IndyMac Bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The assets of failed U.S. mortgage lender IndyMac are being bought by a group of private equity and hedge fund firms, including Dune Capital Management and J.C. Flowers & Co, which are putting up $1.3 billion in cash. A consortium of private equity and hedge fund firms, including Dune Capital Management and J.C. Flowers & Co, has agreed to buy the assets of failed mortgage lender IndyMac, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said on Friday.Vishnu Sharma was, till recently, an obsessive equity investor. ?All my family put their saving into the equity markets. So I started putting money into it ever since I started earning. In 2007, I earned a good profit.Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in central European markets. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names. Share prices are from the last close.Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies may have unusual price changes in Asia trading , excluding Japan. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are from the previous close, unless noted otherwise.Yahoo! News Search Results for Equity
