US - The Department of Labor should develop guidance for defined benefits (DB) schemes investing in hedge funds or private equity, as previously recommended by a federal advisory council, a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has stated.
The GAO said holdings in those asset classes posed higher risks and challenges than stock market investments, such as little information on those vehicles' underlying assets. Mitigating those risks...
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