“It’s now or never for the leaders of the world’s biggest economies to make the changes that will support their claims to have learnt the lessons of the financial and economic crises. Oooh aye? “Strict and consistent measures must be put in place to regulate financial markets, particularly in regard to hedge and private equity funds. Private equity

The European Commission's draft directive on hedge funds and private equity funds can and will be improved, according to the UK's financial services minister

The Finance Minister of Sweden, which took the helm of the EU yesterday (1 July), said hedge funds and private equity firms needed to be regulated, but warned against "overzealous" initiatives as they should not be seen as the primary cause of the global financial crisis.

The EU internal market commissioner tells Tim Geithner that new rules for hedge funds and private equity will not shut foreign funds out of EU financial markets

European laws to regulate hedge funds and private equity funds for the first time should be subject to a full impact assessment, a UK treasury minister says

European Commission proposals to regulate alternative investment funds discriminate against private equity and favour direct competitors like sovereign wealth funds or maverick businessmen, Javier Echarri, secretary-general of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA), told EurActiv in an interview.

Proposals to regulate hedge funds and private equity funds in Europe could be a "catastrophe" for the venture capital sector, industry figures warn

Hundreds of small companies have warned EU legislators over possible consequences of proposals to regulate hedge funds and private equity funds, saying these could affect capital support

Private equity funds appear to have won a big political battle after EU officials unveiled their final proposals to regulate "alternative investment funds" in Europe for the first time

I must be thick, but this story doesn't seem to make much sense to me. UK – Claims that private equity firms are driving pension funds into the control of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) have been challenged by new research. According to the research conducted by Close Brothers, companies backed by private equity firms accounted for 29% of the pension schemes that had been forced to e...