We’ve seen recently that a number of venture firms are looking to acquire mature businesses and apply AI to drive growth and efficiency. That speaks to the opportunity that we see in this latest ...

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 ...

The industry awaits new federal guidance and a Supreme Court ruling to see if either will finally unlock access to individual retirement accounts.

Over the past 20 years, the Cambridge Associates Private Equity Index has beaten public equity benchmarks by a wide margin. But, as the saying goes, past performance is no guarantee of future returns.

Historically, private equity has not been among the investment options available for 401(k) plans. But that could soon change, providing a new opportunity for retirement savers — though also one that ...

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 ...

In the past, the private equity world has been largely populated by ultra-rich investors, endowments and pension funds. That may be about to change. Retirement savers with 401(k) accounts are gaining ...

Restrictive covenants are unquestionably a significant deal consideration in M&A transactions. In the private equity context, a buyer is focused on restrictive covenants to protect its investment by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ge Bai is professor of accounting & health policy at Johns Hopkins. They found no evidence that private equity-acquired hospitals ...