EurActiv.com – 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.

"We are not against regulation, but it has to be fair," Echarri said, complaining that an EU draft directive on alternative investment funds will hit private equity firms in a disproportionate manner in comparison with other financial actors, further damaging the credit market "when most European companies are in desperate need for capital".

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Seeking Alpha – For the last few months, the media has portrayed the hedge fund industry as in desperate need to hang on to as much capital as possible. Hedge fund limited partners have purportedly been lining up demanding breaks on fees and access to capital in the future — and getting them. The truth is a little different (or at least a little more nuanced) than this perception.

Based on conversations I’ve had with managers in the industry, there are two factors which appear to differentiate between those hedge funds who have agreed to big concessions on fees and liquidity with their investors and ones who haven’t.

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