The Canadian M&A market rounded off 2011 with another quarter of steady activity, according to data from the Financial Post Crosbie: Mergers & Acquisitions database.

(Data reproduced with permission of Crosbie & Company)

In this paper Pablo Fernandez, Javier Aguirreamalloa and Luis Corres Avendaño of IESE Business School, show the average market risk premium used for the US in 2011 by professors, compared with analysts and companies.

There are over 2,600 private equity firms headquartered in the US and over two-thirds of these are located within six states. New York, California, Massachusetts, Texas, Illinois and Connecticut are the biggest states in terms of number of private equity firms and the amount of capital raised by such firms over the last 10 years, reveals this May 2010 report from alternative assets data provider Preqin.

A look at US-based real estate fund managers from alternative assets data provider Preqin...