Private Equity

Earnings calls for two publicly listed private equity firms were spiced up this week by analyst questions about how the firms calculate net internal rates ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining how private equity firms report a key metric of their past performance when they market new funds ...

A senior U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission official on Thursday urged private equity firms to follow Blackstone Group LP’s decision to stop a controversial fee practice in ...

Entities are increasingly popping up whose business model is based specifically on providing “accredited investor” certification services. “The need is out there due to the ...

This proceeding involved breaches of fiduciary duty and materially misleading statements and omissions by CEC, an investment adviser formerly registered with the Commission, and its founder, ...

Hedge fund advisers are having some advertising and marketing compliance issues and 2015 will see SEC examiners focus on retiring investors. These nuggets were among ...

The fallout from the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers continues. This time the cost is $15 million—the penalty Barclays Capital ($12.9B in AUM) will pay ...

It is no longer the golden age for deal and monitoring fees.

Hedge fund advisers lured by rapid growth in the more than $300 billion alternative mutual funds market are increasingly becoming involved with the funds either ...

The SEC is 90% toward tackling its mandated Dodd-Frank rulemaking. In recent testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Chair Mary Jo White noted that Dodd-Frank ...