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The lead attorney for six trade groups has warned an appellate panel that the SEC's sweeping rules will cost industry $5.4bn per year if left standing.

Private equity fundraising fell for the second year in a row last year, with the number of funds closed almost matching the number seen in 2017.

Ranjan, based in the firm’s London office, inherits a much more extensive private equity business than existed just two years ago.

In this episode of the Spotlight podcast, Jill Shaw, a managing director at global consultancy Cambridge Associates, discusses the hottest private markets strategies for these investors and their ideal approaches to portfolio construction.

Technological developments in the real estate space mirror the progress being made in the democratisation of private equity, writes Kyle Hagerty.

Two years of lobbying and fine-tuning of private markets rule-making could be undone as a lawsuit gets underway in the US.

Allen Waldrop, director of private equity at Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, has been tasked with optimising the institution's exposure to PE.

Speaking at the HKVCA’s Asia Private Equity Forum on Friday, Eric Mason, head of PE at the Church Pension Fund, told delegates that using NAV facilities to create distributions increased financial risk.

Still, some sectors will be more impacted than others as a result of potentially protectionist policies, according to the firm's president and COO.