A crowded field and subpar returns have frustrated America’s wealthiest universities, some of private-capital firms’ ...

Private equity firms acquire hundreds of retirement consultants and push alternative investments into 401k plans nationwide ...

Amid increasing calls for regulation, The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke to Penn experts about the role of private equity in healthcare and the risks it may pose.

David Hsu, author of the 2004 study “What Do Entrepreneurs Pay for Venture Capital Affiliation?,” analyzed the financing offers made by competing venture capital firms, or VCs, at the first ...

Private equity has had quite a boom over the last couple of decades. Here are some stats: The number of private equity firms has grown from just 24 in 1980 to 17,000 in the U.S. alone today. In 2000, ...

The introduction of private investments in 401(k) plans is a much-debated initiative of the Trump Administration. But voters ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ge Bai is professor of accounting & health policy at Johns Hopkins. Private equity firms make money by practicing “buy low, sell ...

Some asset managers—BlackRock among them—are eager to add private-market investments to retirement plan products, such as target-date funds. Morningstar’s senior principal for multi-asset strategy ...

One of the most active players in this space is Cordillera Investment Partners, a $1.8 billion private equity firm focused on ...

So what, exactly, are these “private equity” firms you’ve likely heard about in the financial media?Well, they generally make their money by offering companies guidance to make them more efficient and ...