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The 5 best and 5 worst private equity funds
Dan Primack 2010-09-21 01:00The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has the nation's largest private equity portfolio, and recently updated fund-by-fund perfo...
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Best and worst CEO buzz of 2009
Jessica Shambora 2009-12-31 11:28Fortune commissioned a statistical analysis of blogosphere chatter to discover which chiefs of Fortune 500 companies garnered the most buzz this year,...
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The best private equity deal to ever fall apart
D.M. Levine 2010-05-27 01:27When news started to trickle out two weeks ago that a consortium of private equity firms were in talks to buy up a Fortune 500 provider of real estate...
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5 private equity story-lines for 2011
Dan Primack 2010-12-31 01:282010 was a comeback year for private equity. Deal volume nearly doubled, portfolio values were boosted by public market comps (thanks, FAS 157!) and P...
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The best books on investing
David Warsh 2010-12-30 01:55After nearly 20 years as Sunday business columnist at The Boston Globe, and another eight as proprietor of Economic Principals -- a site that covers t...
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Why private equity is in a deep freeze
财富中文网 2009-07-29 05:20Buyout firms with huge stockpiles of cash aren't making new deals. The reason? They're too focused on trying to manage the companies they've already g...
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Why Dell won't go private
Shelley DuBois 2010-11-26 01:59The company needs to transform, but here's why going private doesn't make sense.Rumors of Dell going private really took off back in June when, at the...
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Private equity is a man's world... seriously
Dan Primack 2011-02-11 06:56Are you a woman who wants to succeed in private equity? Here's some free advice: Learn about sports. And don't get pregnant. In fact, it might be best...
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Investing in the world's best balance sheets
Shawn Tully 2010-07-31 01:15FORTUNE -- At the G20 summit in Toronto last month, the leaders of world's largest economies embraced a brave new theme: Halting the alarming, potenti...
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10 best stocks for 2011 (3)
Jon Birger 2010-12-28 11:05East West BancorpMarket cap: $2.6 billion2009 Revenue: $880 millionP/E ratio: 12.9Dividend yield: 0.2%Ticker: EWBCLike every other regional bank, Eas...