To understand this trend, it's essential to grasp what private equity is and how it operates ... They face pressure to deploy it effectively—if they don’t use it they risk losing it.

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

While sometimes useful, financial innovation has a way of creating conflicts of interest. Private markets are now a key testing ground for this. Borrowing through what is known as “net asset ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Audax Private Debt announced that it was the sole investor in a mezzanine financing supporting Incline Equity Partners’ (“Incline”) acquisition of Jon-Don (the ...

Hospital closures like Crozer Health’s raise concerns about private equity's role in cutting provider services and increasing costs for patients.

Private equity firms are having trouble obtaining new capital from institutional investors, but Americans have $12 trillion in 401(k)s and similar retirement plans. Amid a strong lobbying push ...

But critics such as the watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) say these firms are often extractive and focused on generating short-term profits that don’t benefit patients.