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GPs operating in Singapore may welcome the credibility that will be provided by an updated funds regime, but have just six months to prepare for its implementation.

Six directors have been added to the firm’s private equity practice, including former All-Clad head Clifford Hall, PE Manager has exclusively learned.

Bruce Feldman, former head of alternatives at the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System, saw the industry tilting toward ‘key’ LPs.

To meet upcoming FATCA requirements US tax authorities have issued draft versions of 'Form W-8IMY' that will complicate GPs' tax reporting forms.

The Toronto-based firm will employ a different fee structure and hold investments for longer than the typical private equity investment period of three to five years.

Financial Services Committee chairman Spencer Bachus is asking for stakeholders' help in introducing legislation that will make the Volcker rule less 'burdensome'.

Indian regulators are concerned about private equity firms using put options as exit mechanisms in India, arguing that they then become non-regulated creditors.

Eric Hovde, founder of Hovde Private Equity, was narrowly edged out by former Governor Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin’s Republican Senate primary.

Increasingly, regulators have been working to make the industry ever more transparent as a way to protect LPs, but Andrew McCune asks just how much protection they really need.

The Alternative Investment Funds Managers Directive bill submitted to the Dutch parliament has introduced a 'lighter depository regime' for private equity funds.