Private-equity firms accumulated hundreds of billions of dollars for new funds in 2020 and 2021. As 2025 unfolds, they will face growing pressure to invest it. And some managers might need to ask ...

Global private equity buyouts of corporate units (AKA carve-outs) have increased as corporations focus on balance sheets in ...

Dry powder, an informal word referring to cash reserves and highly-liquid securities that private equity and venture capital firms have available to deploy when an opportunity arises, is expected ...

The recruitment cycle for entry-level private-equity jobs is about to be overhauled thanks to big announcements from JPMorgan ...

As the industry has grown, it has also become less successful, and some contraction could be just what it needs to get back on track.

Private equity firms are sitting on an unprecedented war chest: roughly $2 trillion in uncalled capital. Often referred to as “dry powder,” this cash pile has been accumulating since the last big ...

McKinsey also observed a rebound in dealmaking and the return of distributions to LPs. Private equity dry powder also decreased, fundraising continues to be challenging, and LPs are increasingly ...

Private equity assets under management dipped last year for the first time in at least two decades, and almost a quarter of the industry’s US$1.2trn in so-called ‘dry powder’ has been held for four ...

Global private equity and venture capital firms had $2.62 trillion in dry powder compared with $2.57 trillion at year-end, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Four ...

In the meantime, the remaining private equity firms focused on oil and gas built up a lot of dry powder that is now ready to be deployed, said Andrew Dittmar, principal analyst for Enverus ...

But where? Private equity firms are sitting on a vast store of cash. Some $3.7 trillion in dry powder, by Bain & Company’s current estimates, is waiting to be put to work. Yet, dealmaking is in the ...