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Private Equity Growth Capital Council Releases Annual Pension Study, Powered by Bison

Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Trust Fund Tops Yearly Study with 17.93 Percent Annualized 10-Year Private Equity Return WASHINGTON – Today the Private Equity Growth Capital Council…

Case Study: Private Equity Helped Michigan Company Grow and Expand Operations

To learn more about the project and see what it means for Michigan, watch the new Private Equity Case Study video.  WASHINGTON – Today, the Private Equity Growth Capital Council (PEGCC) released…

Private Equity Growth Capital Council Launches New Website

WASHINGTON – Today the Private Equity Growth Capital Council unveiled its newly designed website at pegcc.org, complete with an interactive state map that highlights the impact private equity has in…

Fiduciary Proposal Would Bar Certain Retirement Plans from Investing in Private Equity Funds

By Robert J. Raymond, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP The Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) proposed rules expanding the circumstances where a person is considered a “fiduciary” for…

Private Equity Sees Strong Investment in Q3 of 2015

WASHINGTON – Private equity investment increased by 15 percent to $154 billion in the third quarter of this year, according to the most recent Private Equity Growth Capital Council’s (PEGCC)…

CalPERS’ Cites Private Equity as Best Performer, Indispensable Part of Portfolio

CalPERS’ Chief Investment Officer Theodore Eliopoulos said on Monday that private equity is CalPERS’ best performing long-term asset class, offering proof in numbers. For the five years that…

The Hill: Carried interest is a capital gain

By James Maloney: In his Oct. 16 Congress Blog post for The Hill, “What the carried interest tax loophole reveals about our corrupt political system,” Morris Pearl builds an argument based on…