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Private equity is investment outside the public markets. It allows investors to own equity in private companies. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners ...

Regulators and policymakers have been looking for ways to diversify retirement portfolios and improve long-term returns, and they may be getting their wish. In August, President Trump signed a ...

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 ...

Investing in private equity real estate (PERE) offers individuals and institutions a way to gain exposure to large-scale property ventures beyond the scope of traditional real estate investing. Unlike ...

In this series on portfolio basics, I’ll explain some of the fundamentals of putting together sound portfolios. I’ll start with some of the most widely used types of investments and walk through what ...

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Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have taken off in recent years. Investors enjoy being able to diversify their portfolios instantly with a single stock exchange transaction. However, the overwhelming ...

Private equity fund accounting is quite complex to other investment vehicles. What separates fund accounting from general accounting is that, while small businesses, for example, make purchases with ...

In her new book Bad Company, journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care to local news—and the ways workers are fighting back. Twelve million people in ...