Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

While private equity can help an investor’s portfolio, many investors don’t know where to start with the asset class. They often have a limited understanding of how it works, or they’re unaware or ...

Equity funds buy stock in a range of companies. For some investors, they can be a more economical way to invest than buying individual company stocks. Many, or all, of the products featured on this ...

Vanguard Group, the mutual-fund giant, recently announced a plan to give retail investors greater access to private equity. Meanwhile, the manager of one of the world’s largest sovereign-wealth funds ...

Asset managers selling private assets to everyday investors claim to have found investing’s holy grail: lower risk (or at least less volatility) and better returns. Is that true? The answer is mixed.

Private equity funds are investment vehicles that pool together capital from accredited investors to acquire ownership stakes in private companies or, sometimes, public companies that are taken ...

(Reuters) -U.S. equity funds witnessed their first weekly outflow in six weeks in the week through November 26, as concerns over lofty tech valuations prompted investors to take profits and ...

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 ...

Most managers fall behind their benchmarks in any given year, and only 1% do better over any five-year period. An index fund is a better choice, but the S&P 500 has been dominated by just a few stocks ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. gorodenkoff/Getty Images Private equity ...

In the past, the private equity world has been largely populated by ultra-rich investors, endowments and pension funds. That is about to change. Retirement savers with 401(k) accounts are gaining ...

Buyout firms have struggled to sell companies they own and have instead found a workaround to get cash back to clients: ...