Dealmaking is back for buyout firms, but there is little optimism that fundraising will make up for 2025’s dismal results.

Pricey tech heavyweights are sending some individual investors in search of bargains.

The nurturing of in-house talent and close partnerships with external managers helped drive returns

The answer is not hedge funds or quant shops or short-sellers

London-based Pollen Street Capital made an approach to the UK challenger bank in recent weeks

Private-managers now influence the U.S. economy and politics in ways few Americans understand.

Washington and Tokyo discuss possibility of fund that would make large-scale US tech and infrastructure investments

The dumbest PE performance metric still bamboozles some investors

Citadel and other giant funds have remade public markets

Investors are learning how hard it is to get money out of private equity and venture capital

Apple, Facebook, Google and Tesla are all facing the “innovator’s dilemma” at the same time.

The theory is that hegemonies run in cycles, but Trump and a trade war may disrupt the pattern

Alternative tales of investment returns

The greenback’s global dominance was forged on trade, alliances and institutions — now that era is at risk of drawing to a close

Index Ventures is set to earn a 250-fold return on its seed money in a startup that Google has agreed to buy.

Multistrategy hedge funds are facing their biggest challenge since the early days of the pandemic amid a market selloff that’s forcing them to unwind crowded trades at a ferocious clip.

The huge bets on what is known as the cash-futures basis trade could amplify market shocks

Private wealth management companies for the super-rich now manage trillions of dollars globally. Critics say they are open to abuse

Apollo Global Management and Blackstone each reached nearly half a trillion dollars in perpetual capital assets last year.

Assets under management fell 2% last year as investors pull back from investing in sector

Successful firms are increasingly split between behemoths with several business lines and those focusing on their roots of buying companies.

Japanese tech group hit by underperformance in its Vision Fund portfolios

Private-equity firm TPG is setting up for a banner fundraising year in 2025 with a goal of doubling its managed assets over the next several years.

Smaller buyout funds that struggle to raise new money face unappealing options

Deals market gets curtailed by the uncertainty delivered in the president’s first weeks.

US investor could force UK oil company to refocus on core fossil fuels business after foray into green energy

Despite a rough environment, a growing pipeline of independent sponsors is expected to launch debut funds in coming years, investors and placement agents say.

Apollo Global Management invested a firm record of $222 billion last year as the credit specialist sees increased opportunities to finance infrastructure developers in what it calls a “global industri...

The firm said it would increase its investment in the companies by $1.1 billion in total as part of its unusual strategy of taking long-term stakes in businesses it likes.

Matt Swain, head of direct placements and secondaries at Houlihan Lokey, says private equity firms are poised to reap a bonanza. Many investors are overallocated to public markets, he says on "Bloombe...

Private equity returns overtook those offered by private credit in the third quarter, according to data from State Street Corp., in what some see as a sign of a longer-term rebalancing between the two...

Nascent signs of renewed investor interest in physician practice deals could bolster private-equity exits in 2025.

Secondhand trades for private-markets funds handily topped $150 billion in 2024, thanks partly to strong demand from private-equity investment vehicles aimed at individual investors, secondary adviser...

Venture-capital firms are bringing AI and dealmaking to accounting, property management and other unglamorous fields.

High interest rates and thrifty consumers pushed record number of portfolio companies into bankruptcy last year

Asia hedge funds rebounded in 2024, with many posting double-digit gains as China stocks recovered, Japan’s equity rally hit new heights and some managers reached further afield for profitable trades.

Surge in sales and cash deployment at private equity firm follows years of companies struggling to exit investments

The firm is focusing on senior debt deals with enterprise-software makers as it invests its third credit fund.

This system is not just burdensome, it is potentially damaging to market dynamism

Investors in hedge funds often gripe about high fees. A new report puts the problem in sharp relief.

Public markets today rarely offer bargains — the Oracle of Omaha built his edifice some 60 years ago

In a year when everything seemed to go up, the industry generated some of its strongest returns in a decade. Was 2024 a real turning point?

The combined value of global buyout exits plummeted to a five-year low of $392.5 billion in 2024, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence analysis of Preqin data.

Steven Cohen's Point72 Asset Management's new artificial intelligence (AI)-focused fund posted a 14% gain after launching just three months ago, growing the fund to nearly $1.5 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Private equity firms’ strategy of shuffling assets to buy more time for investments to pan out is starting to show signs of weakness.

Hindenburg Research founder Nate Anderson, a foe of Carl Icahn and the Adani family, cites the stress of his job as he shuts down the firm.

London-based maker of realistic avatars secures $180mn in new funding round in boost to country’s AI sector

Investor is seeking control of US real estate company in push to transform his hedge fund into a diversified financial group

Australia's Insignia Financial said on Monday that private equity firm Bain Capital has sweetened its bid for the 178-year-old wealth manager, now valuing it at A$2.87 billion ($1.76 billion), matching CC Capital's bid as the bidding war heats up between the two suitors.

Total value of large private equity deals in Europe increased at twice the rate of the rest of world in 2024