Industry racks up largest asset gains on record, benefiting from buyout groups’ difficulty returning cash to clients ...

The next frontier in investing isn’t a new asset class—it’s a new way of giving people access. The rise of private markets is impossible to ignore, we explain in Morningstar’s 2026 Outlook. Since 2015 ...

For 40 years, private equity enjoyed extraordinary returns thanks to falling rates and abundant credit. That's changed. What ...

Private equity, the business of buying companies, fixing them up and selling them for a profit, is in a bind. The industry boomed during the era of low interest rates, when private equity firms could ...

A few weeks ago, I argued that picking a winning active mutual fund is harder than it looks, and investors can incur hefty opportunity costs when they get it wrong. In this article, I thought I’d ...

For most people, it’s natural to assume that if something is exclusive to the wealthiest echelons of society, it must be better. Asset management firms looking to access trillions of “retail” investor ...

Adams Street Partners has launched a Luxembourg-domiciled evergreen private equity fund for investors in the US.

Recently, private market skeptics, fueled by a misleading, high-profile report from a large financial institution [State Street Private Capital Insights Q4 2024], have again suggested that the ...

Private equity is knocking on the doors of your 401(k), dressed up in slick marketing and lower investment minimums. Supposedly, it’s a breakthrough – “democratizing” returns once exclusive to ...

Why are European public companies so undervalued compared to private peers? What aren’t they getting right? Are governance or regulation headwinds getting in the way? Are European public companies ...

Some private equity companies sold portfolio investments in 2025 that could have used more time to mature, but patience is in ...