Building a portfolio of companies to grow and sell is not as profitable as it once was. Here's what it means for the private equity career path.

Private equity firms are increasingly employing a fundraising tactic that makes it harder for major investors like pensions ...

As moribund IPO and M&A markets defer asset realizations yet again, the challenge for buyout firms shifts further to value ...

MBAs are increasingly turning to search funds, which buy and grow small businesses, to test their entrepreneurial mettle.

Private equity involves investing in companies that are not publicly traded, with investments that are typically medium to ...

Some warn that private equity’s cost-cutting playbook could be particularly dangerous in the aviation industry.

Structural advantages and market shifts seem likely to support a return to form for this enduring asset class.

(Bloomberg) -- Private equity firms are called that because they own stakes in the companies they buy. Today, this assumption is looking ever more outdated. As buyout funds struggle to sell ...

More than a decade after its 2012 launch, Citi’s experiment has ended with disappointed billionaires, a bitter legal battle and a lesson on the pitfalls of marketing private assets. The saga ...

Private equity firms are acquiring facilities that care for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities at an alarming rate, according to a new report released Tuesday. The care ...

But private markets haven’t been completely protected from the savage sell-off on equity markets in recent months. The share prices of the world’s largest private markets managers – who are ...