David Hsu, author of the 2004 study “What Do Entrepreneurs Pay for Venture Capital Affiliation?,” analyzed the financing offers made by competing venture capital firms, or VCs, at the first ...

Mr. Ballou is an attorney and the author of the forthcoming “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America,” from which this essay is adapted. “Private equity” is a term we’ve all heard but which, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study has unveiled the latest consequence of private-equity ownership on a hospital — more patient deaths in the emergency room. The analysis, done by researchers at Harvard Medical School, ...