The Tokyo-based firm has implemented widespread reform – and had senior management take pay cuts – after an independent committee confirmed a former partner had engaged in insider trading for seven years.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
Mumbai-based investment advisory and management firm ASK Group closes its first real estate investment fund on Rs340 Crore. The Economic Times suggests the closing is the first in India since the downturn.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
The $40bn pension, which has not yet committed to private equity in 2010, is happy to come in below target this year depending on opportunities.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
The SEC has said in a letter to FINRA it may exempt registered-broker dealers from its proposed ban on placement agents interacting with public pensions.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
Giving evidence to the US Senate Banking Committee, ex-Fed Reserve chairman Paul Volcker tells banks to choose between being bank holding companies and housing private equity and private equity real estate platforms.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Three investment experts share their views on the role of modern portfolio theory in real estate allocation policies – and the limits that weak data impose on attempting to treat real estate like just another asset class. PERE magazine, February 2010 issue
4 min read · 24 January 2013
Proposed EU regulations covering the private equity industry have received more 1,000 demands for amendments by MEPs.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
US and international accounting boards are still striving to reach a unified set of accounting standards in 2010 – which will likely mean more headaches for CFOs.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
Landlords on course to win the day over rules that would have forced them to exclude property values and rental incomes from their balance sheets and income statements.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
However a survey of alternative investment professionals shows four in 10 don’t expect returns to top 10% this year.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
