Surge in sales and cash deployment at private equity firm follows years of companies struggling to exit investments
Equities rally as authorities set explicit investment targets for mutual funds and state-owned insurance companies
Plus, the UK government ousts its competition regulator and the hot listing bankers are scrambling to work on in Hong Kong
Dividends have exceeded pre-crisis levels while lenders have topped up returns with buybacks
Growing appreciation of the risks will cause wider damage to homeowners’ equity