Should GPs support the ILPA Private Equity Principles?

I have been fielding these same questions from my GP, LP and other industry colleagues: • “What do you think about the ILPA Principles?” (soft voice) • “How do you think it will affect my business?” (worried voice) • “They don’t...

Semaphore’s Annual PE Industry Confidence Survey results

Is 2011 a Wasteland or Playground? It seems my industry colleagues have continued to be wrongly optimistic about their personal income against a backdrop of continued and decided lack of confidence in the economy and their national governments. That appears to be the...

Teaching Ethics

Stop the Merry-Go-Round: It’s Time to Get Serious and Teach Ethics to Help End the Games The media are filled with the seemingly never-ending games of financial fraud and scandal. We continue to witness a basic lack of ethical standards, the end result of which...

Semaphore’s 2012 Confidence Survey

Hello, Do you expect to make more personal compensation next year than this year? Feeling more confident or less confident in the President’s Economic team? Your thoughts on Newt or Mitt? Annually we ask our readers to weigh in and share their level of confidence in...

No Sand Between Our Toes 2012

But our LPs are very happy that we don’t have summer tans. This is the fifth edition of our summer blast. OK, it should be titled “Some Sand Between Our Toes”. We’ve actually had the fortune of enjoying both a busy period and a highly efficient...