Some pension funds “systematically pay more fees,” researchers from Harvard and Stanford found. Some pension funds have given up billions of dollars in private equity gains because of their fee structures, according to research from Harvard University and Stanford...
Blackstone Group Inc. has proceeded with the acquisition of Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd.’s technology park as it is set to pay the first tranche of 1.5 billion rupees ($21 million) as soon as Wednesday, people familiar with the matter said. The fund will pay another 20...
Over the past decade, returns from private and public equity have converged. Should we be worried? Investors have poured more than $2 trillion into buyout funds over the past decade for a simple reason: They deliver. Over the past 30 years, US buyouts have generated...
SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund 2 is investing $100 million in compliance and employee-monitoring software company Behavox, according to people familiar with the matter. The investment, which is in the form of preferred shares, values Behavox at about $500 million,...
When Chris Cole walked away from his post as one of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s top investment bankers back in 2016 to co-found a small advisory firm, it wasn’t the best moment. The business his new firm would specialize in — transactions in the financial...
