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March 30 2012
by Todd Hixon
An Insider Perspective On Carried Interest
Public dissection of Mitt Romney’s tax returns has put “carried interest” in the spotlight, but many people don’t know what carried interest is or why it’s there. A segment on the Marketplace radio program last week (link) brought this home for me. [IMHO, Marketplace is about the best business program on the radio.] I was ...
November 22 2011
by Todd Hixon
Down With The 1%! Whoever They Are …
Unless you live in a deep cave, you’ve probably heard that the “1%” (top 1% of U.S. households ranked by income) enjoys a large percentage of U.S. after tax income (about 20% in 2007), famously documented by the CBO* (link). The Occupy Wall Street protesters imply that the 1% is mostly Wall Street traders and ...
October 23 2009
by John Backus
Executive Compensation
Today I turn the blog over to Walt Shill, a CEO of one of our portfolio companies many years ago, and now a very senior executive at Accenture. I love the way Walt thinks and writes – and post this below with his permission. The topic is executive compensation, but at the end he has ...
