these days blasting his record at bain capital where he says he helped create tens of thousands of jobs. tonight, a closer look at that company. james rosen in d.c. tonight. james? >> we begin at the beginning, shep. bain capital is a privately owned investment firm in boston that employs 900 people worldwide. it handles public and private equity deals. that means basically buying existing companies and trying to increase their profits and market shares. bain also does venture capital deals investing in startups. bain has made private equity investment in some 450 companies. we see 240. we have updated this. it now manages 66 billion in assets. romney was bain capital's first ceo back in 1984. he stayed there about 15 years. under his guidance a 37-million-dollar investment fund returned 200 million to investors. and as late as 2006, romney was still earning up to 15 million a year from his