Category: Regulation
11/18/12
08:27:08 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
, 163 words 
Categories: Deals, Corporate Governance, Asia, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation, Market Characteristics, Market Structure, Regulation
Braegger, Stefan, Private Equity - Accessing China Through Private Markets (July 16, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2132623 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2132623Abstract: "The re-balancing of China's economy will offe… more »
05/16/12
06:04:05 am, by admin , 148 words
Categories: Valuation, Statistics, Performance Measurement, Regulation
Cumming, Douglas J. and Zambelli, Simona, Private Equity Performance Under Extreme Regulation (March 30, 2012). Journal of Banking and Finance, 2012, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2056786
Abstract:
"This study inves… more »
04/09/12
09:04:36 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 97 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Market Characteristics, Regulation
"The AIFM directive was adopted in response to the financial crisis based on the premise that the alternative investment fund industry contributed to it. However, it is now widely accepted that the industry neither caused nor contributed to the financial… more »
03/31/12
06:17:45 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 172 words
Categories: Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation, Regulation
The American: Getting Venture Capital Back on Track, by Scott Shane, March 30, 2012The House and Senate recently passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, a piece of bipartisan legislation initiated by House Republicans that will help ri… more »
03/03/12
07:44:00 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 122 words
Categories: Deals, Valuation, Performance Measurement, Market Characteristics, Regulation
Achleitner, Ann-Kristin and Figge, Christian, Private Equity Lemons? Evidence on Value Creation in Secondary Buyouts (January 12, 2012). European Financial Management, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1983909
Abstract:
"This… more »
02/25/12
07:30:31 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 56 words
Categories: Deals, Investment Strategy, Entrepreneurship/Leadership/Innovation, Regulation
AEI: Government Is a Lousy Venture Capitalist, by Kenneth P. Green, Feb. 24, 2012While government has a legitimate and valuable role in basic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics research, it is a lousy venture capitalist and is largely… more »
02/07/12
08:57:49 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 17 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Market Characteristics, Regulation
Apollo's Sam Oh on evolving GP-LP relationship from The Deal on Vimeo.
Keywords: Private Equity, GPs, LPs more »
07/19/11
07:51:45 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 267 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Market Characteristics, Regulation
Payne, Jennifer, Private Equity and its Regulation in Europe (July 1, 2011). Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 40/2011. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1886186Abstract:"In the fifteen year period to 2008 the private equity indus… more »
06/28/11
PE right solution for Europe capital gap from The Deal on Vimeo.
Keywords: Bank Regulation, Commercial Loan Portfolios, Private Equity more »
06/09/11
07:38:12 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 60 words
Categories: Deals, Market Characteristics, News, Regulation
Speaking of private equity aid cording to capital iq, the number and dollar volume of live vached buyouts are 15% lower this year than last. 436 deals made here today worth just over $26 billion. a year ago at this time, 477 deals at this point worth nea… more »
03/05/11
07:58:54 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 213 words
Categories: Performance Measurement, Market Characteristics, Regulation
Find following a link to a paper by A. Schertler from reputed Kiel Institute of World Economics. It shows that government incentives for start up entrepreneurs can create the wrong incentives. Entrepreneurs who put their own money on the line have strong… more »
09/08/10
07:01:22 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 149 words
Categories: Market Characteristics, Market Structure, Regulation
The Deal Magazine: Berlinski and Mass on how PE will cope, Sept. 3, 2010
Milton Berlinski, global head of Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s financial sponsors group and vice chairman of the bank's strategy and corporate development group, is no stranger to p… more »
06/30/10
11:14:49 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 19 words
Categories: Deals, Market Characteristics, Regulation
Ladapo, Lawale Nicholas, Private Equity in a Deleveraged Economy: Lessons from the Financial Crisis (May 18, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1628948 more »
06/05/10
07:23:54 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 123 words
Categories: Various Market Info, Asia, Regulation
The Economist: Money can't buy lovePrivate-equity firms battle to keep their tax perks, June 3, 2010"Josh Lerner, a professor at Harvard Business School, says the tax change won’t “have the cataclysmic effect” the industry claims it will. The priva… more »
05/23/10
08:16:19 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 138 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Market Characteristics, Regulation
David Haarmeyer made us aware of his article "The AIFM directive: a destructive policy for private equity and EU economies," which was written in response to the charges that PE is destructive and a cause of systemic risk. It was published online at Euro… more »
05/14/10
In spring 2009 the European Commission has announced that it will propose a Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) with the objective to create a comprehensive and effective regulatory and supervisory framework for AIFMs at the Europea… more »
05/09/10
Guardian: EU to get tough with hedge funds and private equity; The European parliament is expected to toughen regulations for hedge funds and private equity despite UK and US opposition, May 9, 2010The European parliament is expected tomorrow to appr… more »
04/06/10
05:46:20 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 60 words
Categories: Asia, Market Characteristics, Regulation
There are attempts ongoing to heavily regulate hedge funds and the private equity industries. Opponents of such regulation claim that these industries pose no systemic risk to the financial sector and play a positive role for economic recovery. Here is a… more »
03/13/10
Let us hope that the EU leaders get reasonable about their plans to regulate the European private equity industry. The current proposals are of protectionist nature and are completely exaggerated due to the fact that private equity is of hardly any syste… more »
It is about time that officials outside the EU countries object to the plans of tight hedge fund and private equity regulation which would be discriminative to non-EU members.
EUbusiness: Geithner warns EU on hedge fund regulation plan, March 11, 2010… more »
XML Feeds
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PRIVATE EQUITY NEWS:
ENTREPRENEUR'S BLOGS:
- Marc Andreessen's Blog (Founder Netscape Communications)
- Richard Branson's Blog
- The Enterprise Network (a Network of Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs)
- Feld Thoughts (from Brad Feld, Founder of Feld Technologies)
- Jonathan's Blog (Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems)
- Seth Goding (Author and Entrepreneur)
- Lee Hower (Part of the founding Team of LinkedIn
- Ryan McIntyre (Co-Founder Excite)
- Peter Rip (General Partner Crosslink Ventures)
- Peter Schüpbach NewBorn Blog
_________________________________________________________________________________FOUNDER HIGHLIGHTS AND FOUNDER FRUSTRA- TIONS:
VARIOUS LINKS:
- Altassets
- Angel's Corner
- Blogging Buy outs (AOL Money)
- China Venture News
- CMBOR Nottingham Univ.
- Fractals of Change
- From Wall Street to Main Street (Private Equity Blog of Congressman Tom Reynolds
- Innovations-Report
- PrivateEquityBlogger.com
- PrivateEquityFirms.com
- LPX-Private Equity Research
- Private Equity Intelligence
- Private Equity Week
- PWC Money Tree
- Silicon Valley News
- Silicon Valley Watcher
- Standard&Poors (LBO Debt)
- TechConfidential
- TechCrunch
- The Funded (Experiences with VC's)
- Think Equity Blog (Silicon Valley)
- Valleywag (Tech Gossip)
- VCCircle (India)
- Venture Capital Magazin (Germany)
- Venture Economics
_______________________________________________________________________________DEAL RUMORS/DEALS:
ASSOC./INSTITUTES:
- Asian VC Journal
- BVCA (UK)
- Private Equity Guide (Emory Univ.)
- European Corp. Gov. Institute
- EVCA (Europe)
- IVA (Israel)
- NVCA(USA)
- NVCA(India)
- Private Equity Valuation
- Private Equity Council (Washington DC)
- SECA (Switzerland)
- Yale Entrepreneurial Society
PRIVATE EQUITY STATISTICS:
- Dow Jones: Venture Capital Statistics
- Emory Univ: Private Equity Institute (incl. comprehensive Statistics Links)
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Industry (Baker Library Harvard)
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