Supporters say access to PE would allow participants the chance to enjoy higher returns, while naysayers stress that the ...

The potential incorporation of private equity into 401 (k) investment options would follow an "increasing push to provide ...

Private equity has been largely the province of ultra-rich investors, endowments and pension funds. That may be changing.

Goldman Sachs is building a private credit product for retirement plans, joining a broad push by money managers to get their ...

The world’s largest asset manager is preparing to offer its own target-date fund with private equity and private credit.

In a letter to Empower, one of the private equity firms advocating for giving 401 (k) investors access, Sen. Elizabeth Warren criticized “risky, expensive private markets” and questioned whether ...

BlackRock's move comes as the private-equity industry has been lobbying Washington for access to retirement funds, which had $7.4 trillion in assets in more than 710,000 401(k) plans on behalf of ...

BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, now wants to be a financier for private equity and alternative investment firms. Fresh off a year of almost $30 billion of deals to become a ...

BlackRock is seeking to expand its private equity business. In 2016, the firm hired Mark Wiseman, the former head of Canada’s largest pension fund, which pioneered models for alternative private ...

BlackRock Inc. is ramping up plans to offer more of its private-market products to individuals outside the US as the Wall Street giant increasingly tries to muscle in on one of the hottest areas ...

Now celebrating 20 years in Chicago, the New York-based investment management firm is eyeing further growth through ...