Jeff Bartel is chairman and managing director of Hamptons Group, a private investment and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Miami. Although financial engineering is always a way of making ...

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

Private equity may be available in 401(k) plans in the future. But is it a good retirement investment? Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

On Aug. 7, President Donald Trump issued a directive that is supposed to make us all richer. The goal is to make it easier for “alternative assets” like private equity to be included in 401(k) and ...

In a November 2024 article, Cliffwater showed the EBITDA multiples for private and public equity for the 27-year period from 1997 through the third quarter of 2024. Multiples were measured by the ...

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 ...

Asset managers selling private assets to everyday investors claim to have found investing’s holy grail: lower risk (or at least less volatility) and better returns. Is that true? The answer is mixed.

In the past, the private equity world has been largely populated by ultra-rich investors, endowments and pension funds. That may be about to change. Retirement savers with 401(k) accounts are gaining ...