For years, buyout firms used controversial loans backed by their equity stakes to juice up returns in their funds. After ...

Here in the United States, people frequently boast about how the U.S. is the cheapest, most liquid equity market to trade in the world. With stocks trading around $362 billion each day ...

The word got out that valuations were crumbling and IPO pipelines were freezing up. Investors sold quickly, even though the valuations on the funds weren’t (yet) falling dramatically. Big discounts ...

That’s according to an analysis by Markov Processes International, which studied the private equity portfolios and liquidity positions of 10 premier universities, including the eight Ivy League ...