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Sam Zell's global opportunity fund is raising its second pool of capital and hoping to follow in some big footsteps.

Sam Zell's global opportunity fund is raising its second pool of capital and hoping to follow in some big footsteps.

A recent survey of investors predicts that global allocations to alternative assets is set to surge by 2007.

A recent survey of investors predicts that global allocations to alternative assets is set to surge by 2007.

CAPITAL WATCH 2005-10-01 Staff Writer <strong>FUNDS IN MARKET/COMING TO MARKET</strong><br /> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>FUND</strong></td> <td><strong>FIRM</strong></td>

CAPITAL WATCH 2005-10-01 Staff Writer <strong>FUNDS IN MARKET/COMING TO MARKET</strong><br /> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>FUND</strong></td> <td><strong>FIRM</strong></td>

As opportunity funds get bigger and bigger - and their targets more diverse - how enticing will club deals become?

Things change 2005-10-01 Staff Writer Creative destruction works well for people with a fund. The forces that allow a business to thrive off change are capital and talent and, at least in theory, a fund should be the purest repository of these resources.<br /> <br /> This, the October issue of

Things change 2005-10-01 Staff Writer Creative destruction works well for people with a fund. The forces that allow a business to thrive off change are capital and talent and, at least in theory, a fund should be the purest repository of these resources.<br /> <br /> This, the October issue of

Adam Blumenthal and Josh Wolf-Powers, former investment professionals for the Comptroller of the City of New York, have left the pension advisor to launch an independent private equity firm that will focus on ‘complex situations’.