When people ask me about the differences between investing in private companies versus public companies, I often say that you could almost write an entire book on the subject. The two worlds are ...

When private equity firms present their track records to investors, the charts often look too good to be true—higher returns with lower volatility than public markets. As it turns out, they often are ...

Meagan is a former Series 7 financial advisor and current writer focused on blending straightforward information with a dose of humor on topics including equity investments, insurance products, and ...

Private markets have traditionally been limited to institutional investors and the very wealthy, out of reach of individual investors and the advisors who serve them. Private markets allow investors ...

Research firm Morningstar launched the Morningstar PitchBook U.S. Modern Market Index (Modern Market 100), an index that tracks the performance of 100 of the largest companies in the U.S. across both ...

For decades, Oregon’s public pension system has been kept afloat by a gusher of income from its investments in private equity, opaque private partnerships that typically buy companies, manage them, ...