Nicholas Donato

The revelation that an LP commitment to Accel Partners' 2009 fund makes the church an indirect investor in Wonga, a payday loan provider it has publicly criticised, has prompted the church to review its entire portfolio.

Top quartile GPs outperform public markets, fresh research shows, but when looking at averages across the industry, gross private equity returns are on par with public markets.

Seven more securities regulators from outside the EU, including one from the US, have been green lighted to sign AIFM-inspired bilateral cooperation agreements with their counterparts in the EU.

The US accountant standard setter wants to know if development stage companies, a popular source of investment for private equity, should be allowed to reduce their reporting timeframe in financial statements.

Fresh research may quiet calls in the US to reduce the tax deductibility of corporate interest payments, a staple of the leveraged buyout model.

We comb through KKR’s 2012 ESG report to provide some key takeaways in how the alternative assets titan approaches responsible investment.

The reform will allow private fund managers to mass advertise fundraising efforts under the condition they disclose more data to the commission.

State pension plans are finding fault with a study by two Maryland think tanks that concludes alternative asset fund managers are not worth the fees they charge.

The taskforce will use data mining programs to evaluate financial statements susceptible to fraud, an initiative underscoring the SEC’s use of data analytics to pursue investigations.

Under new accounting proposals, private equity firms must look two years ahead to assess any future financial trouble that must be disclosed to investors.