Beware, Wall Street’s private equity, private credit and “alternative asset” (including cryptocurrencies and other digital “assets”) managers are more determined than ever to get a cut of the ...

For 40 years, private equity enjoyed extraordinary returns thanks to falling rates and abundant credit. That's changed. What ...

Some private equity companies sold portfolio investments in 2025 that could have used more time to mature, but patience is in ...

Industry racks up largest asset gains on record, benefiting from buyout groups’ difficulty returning cash to clients ...

The next frontier in investing isn’t a new asset class—it’s a new way of giving people access. The rise of private markets is impossible to ignore, we explain in Morningstar’s 2026 Outlook. Since 2015 ...

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

Private equity is knocking on the doors of your 401(k), dressed up in slick marketing and lower investment minimums. Supposedly, it’s a breakthrough – “democratizing” returns once exclusive to ...

Recently, private market skeptics, fueled by a misleading, high-profile report from a large financial institution [State Street Private Capital Insights Q4 2024], have again suggested that the ...

A few weeks ago, I argued that picking a winning active mutual fund is harder than it looks, and investors can incur hefty opportunity costs when they get it wrong. In this article, I thought I’d ...

Donald Trump directed his Secretary of Labor Thursday to reevaluate past guidance on 401(k) regulation in a win for private equity that could unlock trillions in assets. President Donald Trump signed ...

For most people, it’s natural to assume that if something is exclusive to the wealthiest echelons of society, it must be better. Asset management firms looking to access trillions of “retail” investor ...