Entries tagged "Private Equity Council"
Venture firms have nearly secured an exemption from onerous regulatory reform, but private equity and hedge fund lobbyists may thwart it for them.
The Privat e Equity Council has adopted a set of guidelines to govern environmental, health, safety, labor, governance and social issues.
All the efforts of private equity firms to improve their image worldwide could quickly be undone if Mitt Romney wins the "veep-stakes" to be Sen. John McCain's running mate on the Republican ticket. With the Olympics expected to take up plenty of media attention prior to the GOP convention, McCain may announce his pick soon and the prospect of Romney, currently on the shortlist, has the private equity industry readying itself to become a central political issue....
The Private Equity Council's president Douglas Lowenstein is on record as saying that he expects taxes on carried interest to go up no matter which party wins the White House in 2008. Indeed, attacks on the tax rate for carried interest have begun well before the budget debate gets started on Capital Hill as evidenced by private equity critic Robert Greenwald's "Larry the Loophole" cartoon. At The Deal's 2007 Private Capital Symposium, Lowenstein explained PEC's plan for combating a carried interest tax hike. Watch a video of the conversation after the jump. - George White...
Private equity's general partners are likely staring down the barrel of a tax hike no matter which party wins the U.S. election, Douglas Lowenstein, the president of the Private Equity Council, warned Wednesday. ...
