The roundtable has been accused of ignoring some valuable components of pay, such as pension benefits and dividend payments on restricted shares held by bosses, and of understating the value of options and other equity grants made to them.

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The inflation data triggered heavy buying in bank shares and most blue chips in other sectors, said Harish Vasudevan, an equity strategist at local brokerage SVS Securities.

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There have been two big investigations since then, one involving hedge funds being allowed to market-time trades in mutual fund shares, and the other involving insider trading in PIPEs, or public investments in private equity.

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The arbitrage comes in three forms: corporations buying other corporations for cash, corporations buying some of their own shares for cash and private equity investors buying corporations using mostly borrowed money.

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Private equity funds are unregulated investment vehicles formed to facilitate investments in listed and unlisted shares and other securities.

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