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New disclosure requirements that became legally effective this month will enhance transparency in the unit trust industry while unit trust companies and life assurers work towards a common measure of investment costs they may be required to disclose in the future. The two industries are working together, through the Association for Savings & Investment SA […]

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Indian prime minister Narendra Modi flew to seventeen foreign countries in his first year in office, and the momentum has continued in the second, the latest being a high-profile visit to the Silicon Valley in the United States. It is hard to measure the benefits of such trips, because there are several agreements that start […]

That Missouri’s 111,000 retired state workers receive some of their pensions thanks to Africa consumers may seem unlikely. But while African pension funds still tend to err on the side of caution and, for the most part, avoid investing in domestic private equity funds, US pension funds are embracing private equity on the continent. firstFT […]

The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) recently issued new regulations that relax restrictions on the investment of insurance proceeds by allowing insurance capital to be used for the formation of private equity funds within the PRC. The Circular of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission on Matters relating to the Formation of Insurance Private Equity Funds […]

The Institutional Limited Partners Association, the body that represents investors in private equity funds, is taking steps to raise its profile in the U.S. capital, as the industry faces scrutiny over transparency. ILPA has shifted its leadership from Toronto to Washington and is considering registering as a lobby group in the U.S., according to people […]

Texas Employees Retirement System, Austin, plans to commit about $950 million (plus or minus 25%) to between six and 10 new private equity funds and co-investments in the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 2016. The $25.9 billion pension fund reached its 10% target allocation to private equity earlier in the current fiscal year; new fiscal […]

Maybe we can put it down to the recent period of high volatility in global equity markets. And that explanation is certainly understandable given that volatility – in large part sparked by moves taken in China and reacted to in the rest of the world – has been dramatic. For instance, a chart on the […]

On Monday, the gold price continued to drift sideways as a measure of calm returned to global equity markets and the focus shifted back to a recovering US economy. In afternoon dealings on the Comex market in New York, gold futures with December delivery dates lost $0.70 to $1,133.40 an ounce in quiet trade. Gold […]