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Carried Interest: prospects?

…interest, for those who don’t work often in the partnership area, is the way that managers of real estate, hedge, and equity partnerships receive a generous payment for managing the…

BRUCE KRASTING ASKS FOR MORE

…Trust Fund, would have allowed a “generational inequity” where the Boomers paid a lower payroll tax to “pay as you go” for the smaller number of retirees in the generation…

A Year and Counting: re-regulation of Wall Street

…for the Study of Citizenship and others. With me were Larry Ingrassia, Business Editor of the New York Times, and Chip Dickson, CFO of W2Freedom, a private equity fund that…

SILOs –more action needed?

…put some equity into the deal (the provision requires only 20% of genuine, at-risk equity). There are fewer tax benefits to true leases, so even with the exception, the provision…

SIGTARP Quarterly Report to Congress

…buy and sell toxic assets for its own benefit and manage portfolios of toxic assets for others, all while holding or managing equity or debt securities of the banks and…

Elizabeth Warren says sack CEOs?

…little or no consequences for management or equity investors, and this is why Japan suffered a lost decade.” She declined to give more detail but confirmed that she would refer…