Private equity firms have struggled to buy and sell companies since interest rates soared in 2022, with higher financing costs and an uncertain economic outlook weighing on valuations.

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, ...

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.

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AI-driven predictive analytics is reshaping how firms evaluate deals, manage risk, and plan portfolio strategies.

Some asset managers—BlackRock among them—are eager to add private-market investments to retirement plan products, such as target-date funds. Morningstar’s senior principal for multi-asset strategy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 has expanded its influence on the bar and restaurant industry, investing $94.5 billion between 2014 and 2024, according to data from PitchBook. But some of these takeovers haven't ...