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 ...

Regulators and policymakers have been looking for ways to diversify retirement portfolios and improve long-term returns, and they may be getting their wish. In August, President Trump signed a ...

The clamour for private assets via unlisted evergreen vehicles will likely turn out to be a disappointing experience for many ...

Colin is an Associate Editor focused on tech and financial news. He has more than three years of experience editing, proofreading, and fact-checking content on current financial events and politics.

Working in the investment world, I’ve learned that “private equity” means different things to different people. For some, it signals high risk. For others, it’s a mysterious club reserved only for the ...

In the past, the private equity world has been largely populated by ultra-rich investors, endowments and pension funds. That is about to change. Retirement savers with 401(k) accounts are gaining ...

Did PE firms make the world worse? Or was it something else? The 2010s were, among other things, the decade of private equity. A segment of the finance sector long shrouded in myth and controversy, ...

The locker room of Bay FC, one of the NWSL teams owned by a private equity firm Lachlan Cunningham / NWSL via Getty Images When Bay FC parted ways with its first CEO, Brady Stewart, the news hardly ...

A new study has unveiled the latest consequence of private-equity ownership on a hospital — more patient deaths in the emergency room. The analysis, done by researchers at Harvard Medical School, ...

As funds deliver mediocre returns and shed investors, the industry is struggling to unload 31,000 investments, an increase over this time last year. By Maureen Farrell Heading into 2025, private ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sherman McCoy, the lead character in the 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, was ...