How to Spot the Worst Private Equity Firms Before You Commit
The worst private equity firms are not always the ones making headlines for fraud.
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How Much Should Go to Developed vs Emerging Markets
The developed vs emerging markets allocation question is one of the few portfolio decisions where getting it wrong by 10 percentage points can cost a $10M portfolio hundreds of thousands in either foregone returns or unnecessary volatility over a decade. The answer depends on your currency exposure,
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TJC Private Equity: The Jordan Company's Mid-Market Strategy
TJC private equity, formally The Jordan Company, is a New York-based mid-market buyout firm founded in 1982 by Jay Jordan and David Zalaznick.
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How Private Equity Backed Companies Are Structured and Why It Matters at $5M+
Private equity backed companies now sit at the center of a $8 trillion global asset class, according to Preqin's 2024 Global Private Equity Report.
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Does Apollo Private Equity's Track Record Justify the Fees?
Apollo Global Management sits among the handful of firms that genuinely move private equity markets.
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What MSCI BarraOne Does for Multi-Asset Portfolio Risk
MSCI BarraOne is an institutional-grade, multi-asset risk analytics platform built on Barra factor models.
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How Tax Distributions in Private Equity Work for LPs
Tax distributions in private equity solve a specific problem: partners in a pass-through fund owe taxes on allocated income whether or not they received cash.
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How to Read a Private Equity Schedule of Investments as an LP
The schedule of investments is the primary disclosure document that tells you what a private equity fund actually owns, what it paid, and what those positions are worth today.
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How to Spot Private Equity Fraud Before It Costs You
Private equity fraud costs sophisticated investors hundreds of millions annually, and the standard retail-investor warnings won't protect you.
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Primary vs Secondary Private Equity: Which Returns Better?
Primary vs secondary private equity represents one of the most consequential allocation decisions a $5M+ investor makes when building an alternatives portfolio.
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How Platform Companies Drive the Buy and Build Playbook in PE
Platform companies in private equity are the foundation of a buy and build strategy: a PE firm acquires a business with sufficient scale, management depth, and systems to absorb smaller acquisitions over time. The platform is the acquirer. Add-ons are what it acquires. That structural distinction dr
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Radiology Partners and the $9B Private Equity Bet on Imaging
Radiology Partners built the largest physician-led radiology platform in the United States through aggressive private equity-backed consolidation, reaching an estimated $9+ billion enterprise value at peak. Then interest rates rose, debt came due, and the gap between promoted IRR and actual physicia
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