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Friday Letter Combating the cloudsA crucial vote on EU transparency requirements was delayed by Eyjafjallajokull this week, but regulatory overhaul in the US marches on.
- Friday Letter Relationship scars
The SEC’s ban on unregistered placement agents is a step forward for the fundraising market, but it doesn’t erase scars left by the pay-to-play scandal. Meanwhile, controversy surrounding recent comments made by a Blackstone executive further highlights the complex relationship between private equity firms and one of their key sources of capital.
- Friday Letter Tsunami warning
Is it just us, or does anyone else sense that the long-delayed secondaries deal wave is finally on its way?
- Friday letter testing boundaries
With its two RMB fund launches, TPG has joined firms like Carlyle and Blackstone in throwing itself wholeheartedly behind an untested and pioneering private equity vehicle.
- Friday Letter: Don't call it a bellwether
Industry insiders are anxiously watching the progress of a number of funds in market – but pointing to any one firm’s fundraising experience as a paradigm of wider trends could be misleading.
- Friday Letter Enough already: mega-fund bashing misses the point
As limited partners continue to debate the merits of large buyout funds, evidence grows that they may not turn out to be the poor performers some had assumed.
- Friday Letter LPs, GPs and the defined benefit plan debate
Some US public pensions may be moving toward policies to monitor or punish GPs that support the restructuring of public employee benefits plans – but their focus is misplaced.
- Friday Letter LPs need to stand up for private equity
At PEI's Responsible Investment Forum in New York this week many limited partners applauded GPs' efforts to enhance environmental, social and governance policies -- they ought to do so publicly more often.
- Friday Letter In the dock again
The past week or so has shown that the days of labour unions and politicians painting private equity firms as evil asset strippers haven’t passed – and threaten to undo much of the industry’s good work over the past few years in improving its public image.
- Friday Letter It's spin out time
LPs are right to be paying attention to the latest wave of new managers attempting to establish themselves.