Private equity makes up less than 1% of assets in defined contribution plans. The number of companies backed by private equity firms has grown significantly over the last 20 years as the number of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boston, MA - March 18: US Senator Elizabeth Warren cheering after a teachers testimonial of their student loan forgiveness during American Federation of Teachers roundtable discussion. (Photo by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Private school choice has taken hold across the United States and shows few signs of slowing down. GOP lawmakers in close to a dozen states are signaling that it’s among their top legislative ...