It's been reported that SEC examiners are asking tough questions about expenses charged to investors by hedge and private equity fund advisers. Sources tells us ...
It's gone on for years and continues today. A hedge fund client asks you to manage a side-by-side separately managed account. Know that if you ...
Our story last week on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFM), the EU's new coming regulatory regime for private fund advisers, noted the directive ...
Two enforcement actions announced last week by the SEC highlight the risks private equity advisers face if their compliance policies and procedures aren't suitable to ...
Private-equity firms have generally been conservative when it comes to valuing their portfolio investments—with the exception, no big surprise, of when they’re in the market ...
If you market private funds into the EU, you should know that the new regulatory structure known as the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFM) ...
As debate drags on over the Volcker Rule, banks are settling in for the long haul. Those that have decided to exit the buyouts game ...
Insider trading. Misappropriated money. Money raised from later investors used to pay interest to early investors. None of those things has happened in the private-equity ...
Mark March 1 on your calendar if your firm manages a large hedge fund and April 30 if it operates a sizable private equity fund. ...
Not since OCIE Chief Carlo di Florio raised issues about private equity last year (IA Watch, May 14, 2012) have these advisers received a clearer ...