The top-performing fund has posted gains of 64%, while at the other end of the table the worst performer is down 42%. The vast majority of the thousands of funds available to retail investors posted a loss in the first six months of 2020, but funds heavily focused on...
The National Treasury proposal to subject private equity (PE) firms that tap public funds (read pension schemes) to Capital Markets Authority (CMA) regulations, are welcome – if that’s what it takes to open up pension fund coffers. Otherwise, regulatory hurdles at...
Confusion reigned after the US government’s list of Payment Protection Program loan recipients named various high-profile startups and venture capital firms, including some who denied even applying for the $669 billion pandemic relief program. In the spring, a...
As private equity investments become all the more commonplace in pension fund portfolios, is the asset class really worth it? According to a paper by Ludovic Phalippou, professor of financial economics at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, private equity...
A fool and his money are soon parted… The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree… We’ve all heard truisms such as these — mental models based on shared experiences that are so widely accepted and so ingrained in our culture that challenging their validity...
