Private equity can be appealing for clients who want access to privately held companies and long-term growth. Access, however, is often limited to accredited and institutional investors. In this ...

Does private equity deserve its sharkish reputation?

Private equity, the business of buying companies, fixing them up and selling them for a profit, is in a bind. The industry boomed during the era of low interest rates, when private equity firms could ...

Last year, the amount of capital raised by U.S. private equity funds decreased by over $100 billion compared to the previous year, while the share of the top 10 private equity funds in total ...

Saks Fifth Avenue, the iconic luxury retailer, went into bankruptcy last Thursday. To read most of the press coverage, you’d think that it was just the latest casualty in a long line of failed ...

Did PE firms make the world worse? Or was it something else? The Blackstone Group offices in New York, 2013. The 2010s were, among other things, the decade of private equity. A segment of the finance ...

Private equity may be available in 401(k) plans in the future. But is it a good retirement investment? Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

Wayne Cantwell is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Decathlon Capital Partners, a leading variable repayment private debt firm. This shows that the need for qualified professionals to work with ...

Helping clients understand the risks, rewards, and realities of investing beyond the public markets Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various ...

Metal, a New York-based artificial intelligence startup that transforms how private equity firms analyze investment opportunities, has raised $5 million in funding led by Base10 Partners to build what ...

But according to David Robinson, the James and Gail Vander Weide Professor of Finance at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business , concerns about private credit “might be overblown,” as they are ...