Sticker shock over a $9 sandwich has turned Jersey Mike's into a case study in how private equity can reshape a beloved brand ...

Looking to turn a quick profit, the firms buy medical facilities and then unload them just a few years later, often leaving ...

After hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency departments rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals, according to research published this week in Annals ...

New research, focused on 19 of the 25 largest U.S. private equity-leveraged buyout families, argues private equity is riskier than the publicly traded funds in which defined contribution plans ...

After private-equity firms acquire hospitals, the facilities’ assets and resources diminish significantly, leaving the facilities less equipped to care for patients, according to a new study by ...

Research led by Dr. Zirui Song of Harvard Medical School published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, September 2025, has delivered one of the clearest warnings yet about the dangers of private ...

Did PE firms make the world worse? Or was it something else? The Blackstone Group offices in New York, 2013. The 2010s were, among other things, the decade of private equity. A segment of the finance ...

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 ...

Discover the buy, strip, and flip strategy used by private equity firms, how it works, and its impacts on companies. Learn the process and controversy involved.

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In this series on portfolio basics, I’ll explain some of the fundamentals of putting together sound portfolios. I’ll start with some of the most widely used types of investments and walk through what ...