The lawmaker’s call for an SEC investigation into the school highlights the industry’s fishy valuation practices.

Private equity delivered average annual returns of 13.1% over 25 years, compared to 8.6% from the S&P 500, according to a 2024 analysis from Cambridge Associates.

Meet 14 execs who helped lead private equity's secondaries market to a record $160 billion in deals last year.

The Tampa, Florida, metro, where 23.4% of apartments are owned by private equity, saw a 20.8% increase in households spending 30% or more of their income on housing between 2019 and 2023.

Today, I’m talking with Megan Greenwell, a former top editor at Wired and Deadspin, about her new book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream.It comes out on June 10th ...

Connecticut lawmakers and officials are seeking through several proposed bills to restrict private equity’s role in Connecticut hospitals. But there are differences of opinion of how far ...

Private equity is a central pillar of HMC’s investment strategy, making up nearly 40 percent of its $53 billion endowment with that share increasing every year to date.

Economics correspondent Paul Solman is exploring the impact on communities in Massachusetts after a private equity firm bought struggling hospitals. In his second report, he looks at how private ...

Based on data from Ocorian, US private equity assets totaled about $10.8 trillion as of the end of 2024, compared with $115.0 trillion for public equity. That would suggest an allocation of up to ...

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.

Over 10 years, private equity firms acquired more than 1,000 disability care providers. But intense pressures to turn a profit could harm quality, according to the Private Equity Stakeholder Project.