As the stock market grabs the headlines of the business pages with billion-dollar valuations, investment scandals and failed IPOs, away from the spotlight – and the volatility – private equity is recording ground-breaking results Some of the figures around private equity (PE) activity are pretty eye-watering. Investments in global PE reached a record $1.1trn last year, according to Bain & Company, and exit value reached $960bn. To put that into context, the $1.1t...