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Apollo Insurance Investment Greatest of this Decade?

Marc Rowan, co-founder of Apollo, has built one of the best private equity investments in Athene, an insurance company whose assets ...

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Private Equity Secondary Deals Peak

Private equity investors like to boast that their deal-flow is proprietary because it suggests an overlooked investment and an oppor...

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Pension Plans Exposed to Private Equity

Deeply underfunded pensions stretching for yield in an overvalued asset class make private equity "everybody's business." Private eq...

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Private Equity Investing Pace Slows

Private equity is sitting on a mountain of capital but struggling to deploy it wisely. Per an article in the Financial Times, buyout...

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US Stock Market Bigger But More Concentrated

The number of publicly listed U.S. companies has seen a dramatic decline:
"There are only 3,500, down from a peak of...

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Private Equity Making Direct Loans

New players are increasingly emerging to fund loans that do not meet banks' strict criteria. An article in the WSJ cites nonbank com...

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Banks Find Indirect Paths to Fund Private Equity

There is a growing argument that the reason there isn't greater concern surrounding the ramp in private equity is that the perceived...

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