When private equity firms present their track records to investors, the charts often look too good to be true—higher returns with lower volatility than public markets. As it turns out, they often are ...

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 ...

Metal, a New York-based artificial intelligence startup that transforms how private equity firms analyze investment opportunities, has raised $5 million in funding led by Base10 Partners to build what ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Eccles writes about sustainability in the capital markets. The Principles for Responsible Investment has recently published ...

The Private Equity and M&A Outlook Roundtable is produced by the LA Times Studios team in conjunction with GHJ; Holland & Knight LLP; and Polsinelli LLP. After the many unprecedented operational ...

Nate Koppikar, the portfolio manager and cofounder of Orso Partners, had a novel idea. Private equity is in love with AI, investing more than $200 billion in the lofty tech sector since 2020, he ...