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Q&A With Responsible Pension Investment Expert Thomas Croft

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.28.2009 | Business


Leo W. Gerard

It's incredible how much we don't know when it comes to the investment practices and trends that affect workers' retirement assets and other institutional savings.

Michael Jackson, Grateful Dead Royalties A New Boon For Private Equity

bloomberg.com | Adam Satariano | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business


Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Jackson, the Grateful Dead and "The Sound of Music" are finding new fans in pension funds, private equity and banks conv...

New Breed Of "Mega-Bundlers" Supercharged Campaign Finance

Wall Street Journal | BRODY MULLINS and IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business


Through Oct. 15, the two presidential candidates had raised a total of $350 million in their joint fund-raising accounts, about equally. In 2004, Pres...

Kohlberg Kravis IPO Coming, But It's Not Your Typical IPO

Wall Street Journal | Dennis K. Berman and Peter Lattman | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business


Today, its plan for an initial public offering reflects the troubled times roiling the investment industry: KKR is selling the shares in part to take ...

Kohlberg Kravis IPO: If It Happens, It'll Be A More Diversified Firm

DealBook | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business


Kohlberg Kravis Roberts on Monday said it had hired William Sonneborn to further develop its asset management business, in a move that The Financial T...

Lewis Black "Rants" Against Henry Kravis, Takeover Giant

WSJ.com | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business


Henry Kravis is giving Steve Schwarzman a run for his money -- at least when it comes to public vilification. Henry KravisThe Service Employees Inter...

Private Equity Giant KKR Goes Green

New York Times | Felicity Barringer and Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 05.09.2008 | Business


Is private equity going green? Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, the giant buyout firm, is planning to announce on Thursday a new partnership with t...

KKR In Credit Crunch

New York Post | ZACHERY KOUWE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Even the barbarians didn't think the credit crisis would last this long. A firm affiliated with leveraged buyout giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.,...

Sam Stein

On MLK Day, Filmmaker Takes Private Equity To Task

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


In honor of Martin Luther King Day, filmmaker Robert Greenwald has released a sharp new short film on his topic-de-jour: the excesses of the private e...

Top 10 Worst Business Deals

Time | Bill Saporito | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


#1. The Public Invests in Blackstone Group It was only a matter of time before the private equity firms let the public in on the game -- for an infla...