Lower exits, longer holding periods, smaller returns, and tougher fundraising conditions are reshaping the industry, where only the strongest managers will survive.

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 funds may improve investors’ retirement outcomes—albeit modestly, according to preliminary results from a Morningstar Investment Management study. While increases in retirement outcomes are ...

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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 ...

An executive order signed last month by President Donald Trump aims to make it easier for workplace retirement plans like 401(k)s to offer investments in alternative assets, like private equity and ...

Key Takeaways A new closed-end fund from Robinhood aims to "open the doors to private investing," chief Vlad Tenev said ...

A recent nationwide study has uncovered troubling trends in patient mortality rates within U.S. hospitals acquired by private equity firms. Conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School, the ...

Ordinary Americans are helping throw lifelines to private equity funds. Apollo’s Athene insurance unit alone has pumped roughly $18 billion this year into funding the debts known as NAV loans, in ...

Hundreds of private equity firms are now drowning in a sea of competition, searching for lifeboats of new capital as they cling to portfolios of nearly unsaleable investments. Meanwhile, their ...

Over the past two decades, private equity firms have aggressively acquired health systems, hospitals, physician practices, nursing homes, and other health care facilities. This has reshaped the health ...