Wall Street has found a new source of profits: rural volunteer fire departments. A New York Times report, published earlier ...

The U.S. private equity market has shown resilience, with a significant surge in deal activity during the third quarter of ...

Buyout firms have struggled to sell companies they own and have instead found a workaround to get cash back to clients: ...

As funds deliver mediocre returns and shed investors, the industry is struggling to unload 31,000 investments, an increase ...

A new era of University of Utah athletics was announced Tuesday. Understandably, there’s a lot of confusion about it. As you’ve probably heard by now, the Utes are entering into an agreement with Otro ...

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 ...

Patient deaths have been found to increase in U.S. hospitals after being acquired by private equity firms, according to one study. The death rates rose in the emergency departments of these hospitals, ...

An executive order signed last month by President Donald Trump aims to make it easier for workplace retirement plans like 401(k)s to offer investments in alternative assets, like private equity and ...

As PE firms expand their presence in the insurance business and insurers hold more PE assets, risk concerns are rising and regulators are taking note. Traditionally, the life insurance and annuity ...

Secondaries: For purposes of the SI 50, the definition of ‘secondaries capital’ is capital raised for a dedicated programme of investing directly into the secondaries market. This includes equity ...

Universities, pensions and foundations have piled into private equity for decades, hoping to match the blockbuster returns of Yale’s legendary endowment chief, David Swensen. But Swensen’s approach is ...

When private equity firms present their track records to investors, the charts often look too good to be true—higher returns with lower volatility than public markets. As it turns out, they often are ...