Private equity (PE) funds invest in underperforming companies, improve them, and aim for profitable exits. Hedge funds use various strategies, accessible mainly to accredited investors. PE and hedge ...

Evergreen funds are at the center of the next wave for private assets. While access to private markets was once largely possible through multimillion-dollar commitments, it’s now available through ...

Alternative investments could appear on some 401(k) menus in the year ahead. Here’s what that means for investors.

Private market assets are increasingly making their way into public funds, as part of a financial industry trend known as public/private market convergence. Now, products like interval funds, ...

In a world where public markets dominate the financial headlines, an increasingly important part of diversified wealth strategies is unfolding away from the spotlight — in private markets. Over the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sherman McCoy, the lead character in the 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, was ...

Buyout firms have struggled to sell companies they own and have instead found a workaround to get cash back to clients: Selling the companies to themselves. By Maureen Farrell Maureen Farrell covers ...

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 ...