Private Equity Scrambles to Find an Alternative to IPOs to Unlock $3 Trillion

In this article on private equity’s quest for IPO alternatives, Bloomberg notes, “The number of public companies in the US has almost halved since it peaked at around 7,500 in late 1997, according to the Center for Research in Security Prices.”

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