This month the Private Equity Industry Guidelines Group, a collection of big investors and private-equity funds, unveiled guidelines intended to help standardise the valuation of investments in non-listed companies.

ECONOMIST: Private equity

Private-sector groups want to have their say too: the Market Monitoring Group, a collection of grandees linked to a banking-industry group, is already issuing warnings about fresh bubbles emerging.

ECONOMIST: What regulators should do now

The Futures Industry Association, a collection of futures brokers like banks and investment houses, complained that the new cme Group could have too much power.

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