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PEGCC Statement in Response to the Securities and Exchange Commission Final Rule on Form PF
WASHINGTON DC – Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued its final rule on Form PF as part of the Dodd-Frank Act. The rule requires registered investment advisers to hedge funds…
Carried Interest
Americans for Tax Reform: Supercommittee Should Stay Away from Carried Interest Tax Hike
Supercommittee Should Not Hike Capital Gains Rate
The Supercommittee will be reporting on a series of policy recommendations in November. One idea they should stay far away from is a capital gains…
Tax Policy
NYSE CEO: Enterprise Value tax hike “poses a threat to our still recovering financial system”
NYSE CEO Takes on Obama’s Jobs Bill
By Andrew Joseph
National Journal’s Influence Alley
October 21, 2011 | 9:00 AM |
All those protestors in Zuccotti Park haven’t stopped the CEO of NYSE…
Bronwyn Bailey Joins the Private Equity Growth Capital Council as Head Researcher
Washington, D.C., October 3, 2011 – The Private Equity Growth Capital Council announced today that Bronwyn Dylla Bailey, Ph.D. has joined the organization as Vice President of Research. Bailey…
PEGCC Report: Private Equity Investment Nears $150 Billion in U.S.
New study examining PE investment by country, state, and for the first time congressional district shows PE firms invested in more than 1,200 companies across U.S. last year boosting local economies…
PE Index: Private Equity Activity Remains Steady in Second Quarter
PE Index registers above 10-year moving average as dollar volume and equity investment increases
Washington, DC, August 11, 2011 –Private equity activity continued at a steady pace in the second…
Defending Private Equity from a Flawed Picture – The DealBook
In a July 6 post on The New York Times’ “DealBook” blog, Steve Klinsky, Founder and Chief Executive of New Mountain Capital, and Chairman of the Growth Capital Committee within the PEGCC,…
PEGCC Announces New Leadership
On September 1, Steve Judge, the PEGCC’s former vice president of government affairs, was named interim president and chief executive officer of the council, succeeding Douglas Lowenstein. Before…
Second Quarter PE Index Released
On August 16, the PEGCC released its Private Equity Index (PE Index) for Q2 2011, a metric designed to provide an accurate snapshot of the state of the private equity market. For the second…
Private Equity Invests More than $148 Billion in 2010
New PEGCC research released last week shows that private equity firms invested more than $148 billion in 1,234 US-based companies during 2010. The top five states in terms of deal value were…