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 ...

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 ...

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

The publicly traded company is disappearing. In 1996, about 8,000 firms were listed in the U.S. stock market. Since then, the national economy has grown by nearly $20 trillion. The population has ...

Private equity tends to be illiquid: Investors generally see their money tied up for months or years. In a 401 (k), by contrast, you can typically buy or sell investments daily.

Private equity firms are heading into 2025 with increasing momentum, bolstered by favorable economic trends and renewed confidence in deal-making, according ...