Does private equity deserve its sharkish reputation?

Saks Fifth Avenue, the iconic luxury retailer, went into bankruptcy last Thursday. To read most of the press coverage, you’d think that it was just the latest casualty in a long line of failed ...

Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti is going to leave his mark on the conference one way or another, and the latest controversy swirling around the league could have ramifications for decades to come.

But according to David Robinson, the James and Gail Vander Weide Professor of Finance at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business , concerns about private credit “might be overblown,” as they are ...

Wayne Cantwell is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Decathlon Capital Partners, a leading variable repayment private debt firm. This shows that the need for qualified professionals to work with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Private equity may be available in 401(k) plans in the future. But is it a good retirement investment? Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

There are more private equity funds in North America than there are McDonald's franchises, said KKR & Co's co-CEO Joe Bae, noting that managers have to be very "disciplined." The widening gap followed ...

Metal, a New York-based artificial intelligence startup that transforms how private equity firms analyze investment opportunities, has raised $5 million in funding led by Base10 Partners to build what ...

Last year, the amount of capital raised by U.S. private equity funds decreased by over $100 billion compared to the previous ...

Robert Graham and Francesco Castaldi joined Greenberg in Chicago in the last two months. The firm has added five other private equity shareholders across the globe in the last year. Greenberg Traurig ...