Clearwater Analytics agreed over the weekend to be acquired by private-equity firms, a move that follows a muted stock market ...

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 ...

Many fund managers strive to be transparent with their financial disclosures. Others are so obstructive that they might as well be kicking sand in investors’ faces. While private equity is synonymous ...

In recent market discussions, experts have highlighted the advantages of private investment vehicles over traditional public market options such as the S&P 500. The analysis explains how private ...

Recently, private market skeptics, fueled by a misleading, high-profile report from a large financial institution [State Street Private Capital Insights Q4 2024], have again suggested that the ...

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 ...

The accounting firm Moore Colson is charting a path to stay independent as competitors are acquired. Andy Starnes, managing partner at Moore Colson accounting and advisory firm, poses for a portrait ...

Asset managers selling private assets to everyday investors claim to have found investing’s holy grail: lower risk (or at least less volatility) and better returns. Is that true? The answer is mixed.

Private equity, the business of buying companies, fixing them up and selling them for a profit, is in a bind. The industry boomed during the era of low interest rates, when private equity firms could ...

Retirement plan investors may soon be invited to what until now has been an exclusive club: investing in private equity. Private equity is stock in companies that are not publicly traded, meaning they ...

For decades, Oregon’s public pension system has been kept afloat by a gusher of income from its investments in private equity, opaque private partnerships that typically buy companies, manage them, ...