Nicholas Donato

Long awaited instructions for completing Form W-8BEN-E, which foreign LPs will need to certify their FATCA compliance, has been released.

Real estate investors are digging deeper into GPs’ valuation policies and the accuracy of their performance projections. 

The LP trade group hired a new director to help standardize LPAs and engage regulators on industry matters.  

The Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association is lobbying the government to delay plans to retroactively change the amount of debt on which GPs can claim tax deductions. 

The commission charged a New York hedge fund using new‘anti-retaliation’ powers granted by Dodd-Frank. 

Much like dating, investors haven’t discovered any magic formula to assess a GP’s suitability as a partner. But they do want to be wooed more

Fund managers aren’t always doing a good job of demonstrating what separates them from the pack, delegates heard at the 2014 PEI Investor Relations Forum.

Happily, the SEC’s call for more transparency around fees seems to be having an immediate effect on how GPs communicate fund expenses to investors.

The recently launched NY growth private equity firm recruited Solera Capital’s former CFO for the role. 

The LP trade body wants to discuss the SEC’s recent discovery of mishandled fund expenses, pfm has learned.