Many fledgling companies and start-ups like Apple raised funds from private equity sources rather than going to the public market. These funds are not readily available for the average investor ...

He argues that many executives could learn a few things from private equity. Sign up here. In this new book, Chew, the current and founding editor of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance ...

Paul Solman: But as with hedge funds, private equity's main appeal to investors is the industry's outsized return rate, estimated at 13 percent a year for the past 25 years, by comparison, the ...