The average interest rate on 10-year fixed-rate private student loans dropped last week. For many borrowers, that means rates ...

Private credit is increasingly resembling the public debt market as rapid growth blurs the traditional divide between the two. The industry's size stood at about $3 trillion in early 2025, up from $2 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about AI in finance and banking. Good times are rolling in private credit: more flexible terms and fewer regulations have ...

Chances are very good that your 401(k) does not currently offer you access to private equity investments, which, as the name implies, are investments in companies that are not publicly traded. The ...

In her new book Bad Company, journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care to local news—and the ways workers are fighting back. Twelve million people in ...

Many fund managers are facing difficulties raising cash and monetizing their current investments, Serena Tan, CEO of Gaia Investment Partners, a Malaysian fund of funds, said at CNBC's CONVERGE LIVE ...

A typical 401(k) plan only offers stock and bond funds that invest in publicly traded companies. But private companies — traditionally the domain of institutional and high-net-worth investors — have ...

In the past, the private equity world has been largely populated by ultra-rich investors, endowments and pension funds. That may be about to change. Retirement savers with 401(k) accounts are gaining ...

Ordinary Americans are helping throw lifelines to private equity funds. Apollo’s Athene insurance unit alone has pumped roughly $18 billion this year into funding the debts known as NAV loans, in ...

Providing on-site protection during a fire is a tiny part of what private firefighting companies do, executives told BI. Crews for on-site protection cost thousands per day. Companies in the space ...

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