"[Consider] a situation where a tax-qualified pension fund invests in 20 private equity partnerships, each of which then invests in 15 private equity investments. Is investing in private equity, generally, a separate trade or business? Or is investing in each private equity partnership a separate trade or business? Or, must a plan look through each private equity partnership to each separate investment? If the latter is the case, can a plan aggregate investments across investments that involve a similar trades or businesses? How should a plan handle investments in a fund of funds, a fund that invests in other funds, each of which in turn makes their own investments?"  MORE >>