Investors can potentially capture the high returns of private equity with greater liquidity, lower fees and better ...

Private equity has been a hot topic lately. Many institutional investors expect lower returns from traditional stocks and bonds over the next 10 to 20 years and are looking further afield to help fill ...

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Private equity recapitalizations—as a percentage of all transactions—are on the rise. The primary driver for these middle market recapitalizations is a growing amount of private equity available ...

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 ...

Private equity is a unique, unregistered, nonpublic financial security that is speculative in nature but has the potential to be beneficial to both investors and the businesses that issue it. Some ...

We are fixated on two problems: the price of oil and the frailty of our banking system. We are catastrophizing at a pace I have rarely seen, accelerated by negative commentators who are rarely proven ...

Private equity firms might be more cautious — tiptoeing up to deals instead of strutting — but the big money players are still very much in fashion. While some investors are kind of stuck in the ...

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have taken off in recent years. Investors enjoy being able to diversify their portfolios instantly with a single stock exchange transaction. However, the overwhelming ...