In the past, most small businesses would secure financing by applying for a bank loan or approaching individual investors. But today, a growing number of businesses are securing capital through ...

It’s easy to look at the lifestyles of the rich and famous and wonder about what it would be like to break into this world. For most of us, it’s not realistic to expect an invitation to Jeff Bezos’ ...

Private equity has surged in popularity since the global financial crisis, a trend that continues as investors seek alternatives amid rising interest rates and fewer appealing real estate deals.

These ETFs can help investors gain exposure to privately held startups, at the cost of higher fees and potential illiquidity.

Feb 21 - Wall Street is often blamed for reducing corporate managers’ understanding of business to a single, gameable measure of success: quarterly earnings versus analysts’ consensus forecast. The ...

On Aug. 7, President Donald Trump issued a directive that is supposed to make us all richer. The goal is to make it easier for “alternative assets” like private equity to be included in 401(k) and ...

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 ...

Private equity fund accounting is quite complex to other investment vehicles. What separates fund accounting from general accounting is that, while small businesses, for example, make purchases with ...

Attracted by promises of high returns, many public pension funds have been loading up on private equity but may not fully appreciate the dangers, our columnist says. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes ...

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 ...

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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 ...