Businesses can get a capital infusion via private equity and venture capital funding. Learn the differences between the two ...

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Private equity has had quite a boom over the last couple of decades. Here are some stats: The number of private equity firms has grown from just 24 in 1980 to 17,000 in the U.S. alone today. In 2000, ...

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

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.

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

Donald Trump directed his Secretary of Labor Thursday to reevaluate past guidance on 401(k) regulation in a win for private equity that could unlock trillions in assets. President Donald Trump signed ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

Explore what going private means, its processes, transaction types, and real-world examples. Learn how public companies transition to private ownership.

Author and federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou explains why private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates, how this system is broken, and what can be done to fix it. Author ...