Here's a message to just about every private equity shop out there. There's a really simple way for you to make the billions in all your funds work smarter, harder and faster.

Standing in Legoland in 2011, fulfilling a promise to my then eight-year-old son William, it hit me. Practically every time I'd opened my wallet that day, it had been to a company owned by private equity. Even on vacation, I couldn't escape.

The New York Times has managed to get its hot mitts on a heavily redacted complaint in a class-action lawsuit accusing Bain Capital and other private ...

he industry, once known mainly in financial circles, is now ingrained in the public consciousness, and its dealmakers can thank Mitt Romney for the unwelcome glare of public scrutiny.

Private equity firms are not net job creators and they sure don't need the crazily huge distortionary tax break that they get.

Modern American capitalism is rife with sophisticated financial intermediaries who exploit flaws and complexity in the system, as well as insider connections, to make profits off of predatory behavior -- which brings us back to why the attacks on Bain Capital are both accurate and fair.

A crown on a four-year-old's tooth? That's just one of the consequences of private equity's leap into the dentist's chair. That's because dental m...

A mini-boom in the IPO market seems to have hit a mini speed-bump. The first quarter of this year was the busiest for initial public offerings sin...

Two more private equity companies are going public, as a once-secretive industry continues to make its way into the sunlight. Carlyle Group, the th...

Try as it might, the private equity industry hasn't won the hearts and minds of average Americans. More than half of Americans say they have a neg...

Here's news that will surprise no one who's been watching the tortured fights over the Volcker Rule: The controversial financial regulation is not lik...

Over the last two decades the system has become lopsided so as to leave the 99 percent feeling helpless and hopeless. Meanwhile special interest groups continue to rig the system disproportionately in favor of the 1 percent.

The private equity industry is, in a sense, the last regulatory frontier of U.S. finance, immune, so far, from both the scrutiny and government oversi...

The fact that Republicans are debating (or almost sort-of debating) the merits of certain business practices is a ground-breaking development all by itself.

Mitt Romney's career as a candidate tells us little more than that he can be all things to all people. We have to look elsewhere than Bain Capital to make a well-reasoned decision about Romney's qualifications for president.

On the face of it, Glencore International AG doesn't look too scary. With about $80 billion in assets, the Swiss-based commodities trader is a lightwe...

The billionaire who last year compared Obama's attempts to raise taxes on private equity firms with Hitler's invasion of Poland, on Monday said even r...

NEW YORK — The Carlyle Group has agreed to buy vitamin maker NBTY Inc. for $3.8 billion in cash in one of the largest private equity deals so fa...

Ryan Chittum writes that companies backed by private equity firms have disproportionately high default rates because: "...they levered up their acqui...

Fewer Harvard M.B.A. graduates took jobs on Wall Street this year than in the past as a result of the sharp contraction in the financial services indu...

CAINSVILLE, Mo. -- No one seems to want to own a business in this dusty, windswept corner of rural America, population 370, with its crumbling sidewal...

It's easy to see how tempting it might be for Leon Black to take his private equity firm, Apollo Management, public right now. After all, if one group...