Steps to Become a Successful Private Equity Associate

Discover the steps investment banking analysts need to take to transition into lucrative private equity associate roles, ...
NerdWallet

Private Equity: What It Is and Ways to Invest

Private equity is investment outside the public markets. It allows investors to own equity in private companies. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners ...
Morningstar

Is Private Equity Coming to Your 401(k)?

Some asset managers—BlackRock among them—are eager to add private-market investments to retirement plan products, such as target-date funds. Morningstar’s senior principal for multi-asset strategy ...
Morningstar

How to Use Private Equity in Your Portfolio

In this series on portfolio basics, I’ll explain some of the fundamentals of putting together sound portfolios. I’ll start with some of the most widely used types of investments and walk through what ...
Harvard Business Review

How Private Equity Firms Are Creating Value with AI

Private equity (PE) firms are particularly interested in rapid value realization from investments in portfolio companies. They “buy to sell,” typically purchasing companies they believe are ...
The New York Times

Private Equity Is Gutting America — and Getting Away With It

Mr. Ballou is an attorney and the author of the forthcoming “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America,” from which this essay is adapted. “Private equity” is a term we’ve all heard but which, ...