Subject: RSCI News
From: "Sebastian Momtazi" <[email-masked]>
To: "undisclosed-recipients:"
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:02:00 -0500

FISKER

More Celebrity endorsements for
Fisker<http://www.complex.com/rides/2013/02/the-game-and-his-friends-left-the-fisker-dealership-with-four-karmas>

Complex 2/28

‘The Game’ and his friends have bought Fisker Karmas and spoken favorably
of the car via Twitter.

Sequester does not target EV tax
credit<http://www.torquenews.com/1083/millionaires-sigh-relief-sequester-does-not-target-ev-tax-credit>

Torque News 2/27

The $7,500 federal tax credit for EVs will not be cut.

EFH

Warren Buffett called the explosion of the biggest LBO in history last
year<http://www.businessinsider.com/buffett-energy-future-bankruptcy-2013-3>

Bloomberg 3/1

Buffett claimed to have ‘totally miscalculated the gain/loss probabilities
when [he] purchased the bonds’.

EFH creditors said to hire Millstein for debt
talks<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-27/energy-future-creditors-said-to-hire-millstein-for-debt-talks.html>

Bloomberg 2/27

Jim Millstein, the U.S. Treasury Department’s former chief restructuring
officer and his firm Millstein & Co. have been retained by senior creditors
to EFH’s completive power unit.

WEATHER

Android popularity triggered The Weather Channel app
update<http://androidcommunity.com/the-weather-channel-android-app-popularity-triggered-the-recent-app-update-20130226/>

AndroidCommunity 2/26

Essentially the app update was born out of the increasing popularity of the
Android platform.

BUSCH

New 134-room hotel planned for SeaWorld
Orlando<http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2013/02/26/new-134-room-hotel-planned-for.html>

Orlando Business Journal 2/26

The hotel will sit on a 3.5 acre piece of land by SeaWorld Orlando

PRIVATE EQUITY

Shariah funds lure Middle East LPs to Southeast
Asia<http://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2013/02/27/shariah-funds-lure-middle-east-lps-to-southeast-asia/>

WSJ 2/27

Asian managers, joining a trend from the bond markets, have begun launching
Islamic private equity funds in response to interest from investors in the
Middle East.

LPs turn their eyes to
Africa<http://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2013/02/28/limited-partners-turn-their-eyes-to-africa/>

WSJ 2/28

PE investments in emerging markets have become even more diversified and
deal flow has picked up in North Africa, specifically Morocco.

Why NYC might take pension funds management
in-house<http://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2013/02/28/why-n-y-c-might-open-its-pension-funds-to-outside-management/>

WSJ 2/28

NYC’s pension funds uncharacteristically use investment managers, but this
may soon change.

A new blow in South Carolina’s $27bn pension
brawl<http://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2013/02/28/a-new-blow-in-south-carolinas-27-billion-pension-brawl/>

WSJ 2/28

The SC Investment Commission, which oversees the state’s pension fund,
voted 5-1 to “censure” SC Treasurer Curtis Loftis for his on-going critique
of the state’s investments strategy, which boasts one of the largest
concentrations in PE, hedge funds and other alternatives among large U.S.
pensions