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Carried Interest

Private Equity and the Treatment of Carried Interest: An Overview

Carried Interest: What It Is A critical component of the American economic system is the principle that those who create value by their work should be rewarded. Carried interest is just another name…

PEC Statement: SEIU’s “Behind the Buyouts”

Statement By Douglas Lowenstein, President Private Equity Council on SEIU’s “Behind the Buyouts” Study Washington, DC – April 24, 2007 – The following statement should be attributed to Douglas…
Comment Letters

PEC Comments to the SEC on “Prohibition of Fraud by Advisers to Certain Pooled Investment Vehicles; Accredited Investors in Certain Private Investment Vehicles.”

Private Equity Council is formed to provide research and information

Douglas Lowenstein to serve as president Washington, DC – December 26, 2006 Leading private equity firms today announced the formation of the Private Equity Council (PEC), a Washington, DC-based…