PSP (PowerShares Global Listed Private Equity Index) recently celebrated its fifth anniversary, as it debuted in October of 2006. The fund owns anywhere between 40 to 60 individual equities that ...

However, with rates normalized and liquidity tightening, the structural weaknesses of private equity are surfacing. Therefore ...

Private-equity investors have taken a growing role in U.S. capital markets over the past decade, in part due to the returns that such deals have generated for their investors. As the first half of ...

As the chart below shows, five of the largest 25 U.S. accounting firms, ranked by revenue, have taken private equity money.

For brevity, I’ve condensed what is presented in four charts in the paper into one chart below, tracking the private equity allocation percentage across all 20 plans over 12 years.

The private-equity business model is changing, giving rise to a new type of talent. People skilled at running companies and technology are playing a bigger role in PE dealmaking ...

At Goldman Sachs Group Inc., for example, more than 30% of global investment banking fees came from private equity related work in recent years, compared with less than 20% a decade ago.

With a new federal administration and stable interest rates, private equity firms entered 2025 optimistic about M&A volume and IPOs. However, activity in Q1 has been lower than anticipated ...