Valuation

On eve of retail era, Kurt Hohl and Brian Daly warn private funds to check their math.

In separate exam requests, SEC regulators asked an interval fund manager and a tender offer fund manager to show their work.

“Valuations will always be a point of discussion because private companies are not marked to market every day like public companies,” says Joncarlo Mark.

The SEC's sweep may have been inevitable.

Examiners ask about funds by name in opening requests. Enforcement has picked up the scent, too.

A tough exit environment and retail encroachment on the industry have combined with longstanding regulatory and political skepticism to lay bare one of private equity’s ...

Both GPs and LPs are squeezed. That, too, puts pressure on valuations

Federal regulators have agreed to waive fines against an accounting firm that missed multimillion dollar fraud warnings in a mutual fund it was auditing to ...

More scrutiny of PE valuations, especially in a period of slower exit activity and reduced distributions

In part, the proposed amendments are aimed at improving the regulation of underwriting compensation