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PE Manager tracks third party service providers: UBS names co-heads for its private equity secondaries business; Duff & Phelps appoints its European managing director; and more.

Guernsey’s regulator released forms that will allow fund managers to continue using EU member states’ private placement regimes for fundraising.

While the ESG ‘expectation gap’ between LPs and GPs is gradually narrowing, better reporting can accelerate dialogue, said panellists at PEI’s Responsible Investment Forum this week.

As the NDRC and CSRC battle to become the chief regulator for private equity funds in China, GPs lack clarity on where to register their funds.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation plans to become more aggressive in scrutinizing buyout transactions.

Fund managers stuck in the past and only focused on financial engineering ‘aren’t going to be around for much longer’, the TPG co-founder said at PEI's Responsible Investment Forum.

Discovering fraud in potential investee companies is becoming more difficult, meaning many China GPs are steering clear of take-private deals, delegates heard at the HKVCA China Summit 2013.

Janine Guillot has stepped down as chief operating investment officer but will remain at the system through the summer.

Swiss private equity firms will need US investors' permission to send their tax information to the IRS.

Portable devices represent a new threat to safely securing your firm’s sensitive data, writes John Dryden of IT Lab.