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Regulators Demanding More Disclosure From Private Equity and Hedge Funds

Pension Pulse

Advocacy groups have accused the private fund industry of unfair, conflicted and opaque practices that hurt everyday Americans who invest in such funds through their pensions. It's not as if some state pension fund benefits from opacity," SEC Chair Gary Gensler told reporters after the panel's vote.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

And Goldman was the size of a law firm back then. And I mean, it was literally like the size of a law firm, not a giant global institution. KLINSKY: In the private equity fund and strategic equity fund, it’s the big pension funds in the U.S. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Robert Koenigsberger

The Big Picture

My boss, this gentleman I mentioned had been the Finance Minister of Peru was like, I need you to go down to Peru and take a look at the bank, do due diligence, right, 25 years old. And those people are really important for sourcing deals, doing due diligence on deals, doing due diligence on people.

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CDPQ Rocked by Major Indian Bribery Scheme

Pension Pulse

officials allege: Senior executives at Quebec’s provincial pension fund manager tried to win contracts by paying Indian officials hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes and interfered with corruption investigations in the United States, American prosecutors allege. The charges filed by the U.S.