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Why private equity stocks are booming

PE firms are ideally positioned to be outsize beneficiaries of the current market dynamics

Thursday, 5 August 2021 at 15:33

After years of lacklustre performance, shares of private-equity firms have hit their stride.

In the decade or more since Blackstone Group, KKR, Apollo Global Management and Carlyle Group went public, their assets under management have exploded as they branched out beyond leveraged buyouts into areas such as real estate, lending and insurance.