Managers cashed up
By Vishal Teckchandani
The global downturn is providing institutional investors with a great opportunity to invest in private equity fund-of-funds.
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High-net-worth families increasingly are turning to the secondary market to manage their private-equity investments.
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23 April 2009
Article by Matthew Feargrieve and Neal Lomax
There has been in recent years a marked convergence of the traditionally separate asset classes of “hedge” and “private equity”, a trend that recently has dramatically accelerated as hedge fund managers scramble to manage liquidity by side pocketing illiquid or difficult-to-value assets, often in return for restructured [...]

Knowledge@Wharton, 04.20.09, 04:24 PM EDT
David Roberts, a 16-year industry veteran, says yes–but first, the credit markets have to thaw a bit more.
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Claire Spencer, April 2009 (http://www.financierworldwide.com)
British private equity firms BC Partners and Cinven, and France’s OFI Private Equity have joined a small number of other firms in signing up to the United Nation’s Principles for Responsible Investment, according to Financial News. The framework, which is voluntary, is intended to improve social, environmental and corporate governance.
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Association for Corporate Growth panelists answer audience questions
By Becky Yerak | Tribune reporter
April 8, 2009
Will there be a “Barack effect” on the private-equity industry?
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© Thomson Reuters 2009
A partnership arises whenever two or more people co-own a business, and share in the profits and losses of the business. Each person contributes something to the business — such as ideas, money, or property — though management rights and personal liability will vary depending on which of three modern partnership forms [...]

By Ian Katz
April 2 (Bloomberg) — The Financial Accounting Standards Board, pressured by U.S. lawmakers and financial companies, voted to relax fair-value rules that Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. say don’t work when markets are inactive.
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by BOYD ERMAN
It’s payback time for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The past couple of years haven’t been much fun for the giant money manager, which has sent deal makers around the world to hunt for ports, airports, toll roads and other infrastructure assets, only to be outbid by rivals riding high on waves [...]