Does private equity deserve its sharkish reputation?

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.

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 ...

The aggregate value of private equity and venture capital entries globally increased 20% to $468.51 billion in 2025 from $390 ...

Private equity is often defined by outcomes. Returns, exits, and the ability to spot value before the rest of the market does ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...