Hundreds of private equity firms are drowning in a sea of competition, searching for lifeboats of new capital as they cling to portfolios of nearly unsaleable investments.

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

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

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 ...

Across portfolios, firms are sitting on a pile of so-called "zombie companies": businesses that are unable to attract buyers even at a discount. "Private equity firms are having difficulties because ...

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 ...

The number of global private equity exits rose 5.4% last year to 3,149, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Private equity firms are preparing for a significant portfolio clearout in 2026, following a year of progress in offloading old investments. According to a report, the private equity firms have been ...

Private equity’s push into the wealth and retail channels could lead to class actions from individual investors in a way the sector has not previously experienced. But this increased litigation risk ...

Looking to turn a quick profit, the firms buy medical facilities and then unload them just a few years later, often leaving devastation in their wake. Alfredo Sanchez learned plenty in nursing school, ...