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Pension plan sponsors face significant challenges.  Retirement obligations continue to increase, and the two major equity market set-backs in 2000 and 2008 have produced widening funding gaps.  So what does the future hold?  Will their plans be able to reliably achieve their stated return objectives?  Unfortunately for plans relying solely on traditional equities and fixed income, the prospects look grim.  Our analysis suggest these plans will likely experience a 2% shortfall per annum over the next 7-10 years.

This presentation details the key findings of a study looking at the effect of private equity on employment.

Chief Investment Officer David Donabedian recaps the first half of 2012 and provides an outlook for economic activity and financial markets in the third quarter of the year.

Data from the Carlyle portfolio and external sources suggest that housing construction and renovation activity could be on the verge of recovery.

By virtually any measure, the speculative grade corporate credit market in the United States is performing exceptionally well. In this paper, the Carlyle Group looks at why its predicted collision with the “maturity wall” never materialized.

Many will recall Carmen Reinhart’s and Kenneth Rogoff’s "This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly," which had a significant impact on the public discussion over the relationship between debt and economic growth following its publication in 2011. In this article, Rockefeller & Co. Senior Advisor and Economist Matthew D. Gelfand dissects Reinhart and Rogoff's analysis.

The new landscape of energy in the United States — in particular, domestic oil and gas — is changing the national discourse on “energy independence,” influencing our economic recovery, and offering opportunities for discriminating investors. This paper takes a closer look at what might be a new renaissance in oil and gas.