{"id":7661,"date":"2008-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"mideast-funds-face-call-for-greater-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2008\/mideast-funds-face-call-for-greater-transparency.html","title":{"rendered":"Mideast funds face call for greater transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph &#8211; The British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) is to send a senior delegation to the Gulf state of Qatar this month to ask Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds to sign up to Sir David Walker&#8217;s code on private equity transparency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\">Sir Michael Rake, the chairman of the BVCA&#8217;s disclosure monitoring group, and BVCA chief executive Simon Walker are expected to speak to the Qatar Investment Authority, which came close to buying J Sainsbury and owns &pound;3bn of healthcare assets in the UK, as well as to other funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\">Speaking at a Daily Telegraph-SJ Berwin sponsored debate on private equity and transparency last night, Mr Walker said he was hopeful that sovereign wealth finds would sign up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?xml=\/money\/2008\/05\/07\/cnequity107.xml\" target=\"_self\">Read Complete Article<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph &#8211; The British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) is to send a senior delegation to the Gulf state of Qatar this month to ask Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds to sign up to Sir David Walker&#8217;s code on private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}