By Miles Weiss
March 30 (Bloomberg) — Blackstone Group LP, the world’s largest private-equity firm, rebuffed a request from securities regulators to publicly disclose the performance of its buyout and hedge funds while Fortress Investment Group LLC agreed. Click here to read the full article.
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The conference was a great success!  Thank you to all members who were able to attend the conference and workshops.
While the weather in Atlanta was a bit of a wash, the conference was a shining success with attendance levels surpassing our spring conference in 2008. This was a fantastic [...]

By Simon Meads and Laurence Fletcher
LONDON (Reuters) – Buy-out houses are doing smaller deals, borrowing less money and are more involved in hands-on management, as the crisis pushes them back to the roots of their industry.
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By George Chen
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Private equity firm FountainVest, backed by Singapore state investor Temasek, will focus on Chinese consumer demand, urbanization and sustainable development as it puts its first $1 billion fund to work.
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by Peter C. Beller
Treasury’s program to partner with private investors could restore the shredded fortunes of buyout kings.
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By Paul Clarke (eFinancialCareers)
Mid-market private equity deals in Scotland outstripped most other areas of the UK last year, but sadly this doesn’t seem to have created a raft of job opportunities. However, there are signs that the small deal market could prove the place to be in 2009.
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By Denny Thomas
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Private equity funds could earn returns of over 20 percent from investments made in India during the current market downturn, though deals done over the past two years would struggle, a prominent fund manager said on Friday.
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Source: AltAssets.
The European Commission’s legislative proposal for continental-wide alternative investments regulation, which will encompass private equity, is expected to be announced April 22, the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) has said.
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By Chloe Hayward
(Euromoney.com)
In Brazil, private equity is in vogue. Local billionaires Eike Batista and Andre Esteves are not the only people tapping the low valuation opportunities. Fund managers can be more selective within wider risk parameters as the true power of their key asset – cash – becomes obvious. Chloe Hayward reports.
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By Carol Tice (US News)
The VC community overseas is smaller than the U.S., but it is looking for U.S.-based companies.
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