Article: JPMorgan to spin off buyout unit

JPMorgan Chase & Co, the second-biggest US bank, plans to spin off its main buyout business next year after clients complained that the company was putting its interests ahead of theirs.

JPMorgan will separate JPMorgan Partners LLC, which has about US$13 billion of assets, after the firm invests all of its current fund, the bank said in a statement yesterday. Jeffrey Walker, who helped start JPMorgan Partners in 1984, will remain head of the company's 120 investment executives.

The New York-based bank, which has a market value that's about half as large as Citigroup Inc's, is reorganizing four weeks after Bill Price, co-founder of US buyout firm Texas Pacific Group, said competition from ...

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