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10 Questions For your Private Banker - 01/05
01/01/2005
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Investment banks are piling into the private equity and hedge fund businesses at a rapid clip. Lehman Brothers is building a private equity team, and both it and JP Morgan Chase recently acquired hedge funds. Are there any advantages to investing in the funds affiliated with my private bank? Does the performance of independent hedge and private equity funds differ substantially from that of those affiliated with banks?
The quiet period may become noisier if the SEC goes ahead with plans to amend listing rules. If it does shorten the quiet period, how will it affect my ability to take my company public? Will it benefit my private equity investments by making IPO liquidity events easier to achieve?
Hedge funds must register as investment advisors in the wake of a SEC vote in October. How will this affect the funds’ businesses? Will it help or hurt funds’ performance?
Emerging-markets private equity funds have underperformed in recent years, but some surveys indicate institutional investors are gearing up to expand their developing market exposures. Is it a good time to consider putting money into emerging market funds, or will the combination of higher energy and commodity prices and higher interest rates hurt young companies’ prospects in these regions?
The currency markets believe the dollar is set to fall again against the euro. If this ushers in another period of exchange rate volatility, will my currency overlay investment strategies begin to recover and perform better than they did during the summer doldrums?
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