Keeping the pending AIFM directive from hindering LP-GP relationships and global capital flows was chief among concerns discussed by PE insiders gathered in Geneva this week, writes Philip Borel.
Below is the full text of the Institutional Limited Partners Association's letter to EU internal market commissioner Michel Barnier.
Recent surveys point to emerging Asia as a hub for global investment activity. But is it in danger of becoming too hot, too quickly?
US investors in offshore private equity and hedge funds will not have to make potentially time-consuming FBAR filings for their interests in 2009 and earlier, but whether they will get a similar reprieve for 2010 and beyond is still up in the air.
New rules being mulled in the US and in Europe would shrink the pool of LPs allowed to invest in private equity funds.
Chris Franzek and David Larsen of Duff & Phelps discuess the right way to value limited partnership interests. An excerpt from The Definitive Guide to Private Equity Valuation: An in-depth A-Z guide to valuing investments fairly, a new book from PEI Media
In an exclusive interview, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, president of the Party of European Socialists and ‘bogeyman’ to the private equity industry recently told Toby Mitchenall why he still sees the asset class as a destructive force.
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, head of the Party of European Socialists, exclusively tells sister publication PEI why he still sees the asset class as a destructive force.
Some view the fund of funds market as being ripe for consolidation, but an M&A frenzy has yet to kick off, writes Toby Mitchenall.
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, a driving force behind Europe’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive and the former prime minister of Denmark, rejects criticism the AIFM regulations were drawn up to quickly and questions why LPs invest in ‘risky’ alternative funds in the first place. Interviewed by Toby Mitchenall. PERE March 2010 issue