President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that could remake the investment options for your 401 (k). The directive instructs the Secretary of Labor to make it easier for plans to include ...

This episode originally aired on July 21, 2025. From dog food to mattresses and from Chef Boyardee to wedding dresses, a new type of investment firm is making monthly headlines with how it acquires ...

Private equity lets investors buy into non-public firms aiming for profit through strategic improvements. Investors need accreditation due to legal restrictions and high entry costs targeted at ...

Did PE firms make the world worse? Or was it something else? The Blackstone Group offices in New York, 2013. The 2010s were, among other things, the decade of private equity. A segment of the ...

Today, class, we’re going to look at how the American oligarchy works in the person of Stephen Schwarzman, the thirty-third richest person in the world (net worth: $50 billion) and a man widely ...

Margaret Giles: Welcome to Investing Insights. I’m your host, Margaret Giles. Fund companies are looking to make private assets available to everyday investors, but investing in private companies ...

Twelve million Americans work for companies owned by private equity firms. In a new book, the journalist Megan Greenwell traces the arrangement’s considerable human costs. By Jennifer Szalai ...

Two firms are vying for control over much of New Mexico’s energy infrastructure, but consumer advocates are fighting back.

Asset managers selling private assets to everyday investors claim to have found investing’s holy grail: lower risk (or at least less volatility) and better returns. Is that true? The answer is mixed ...

Private equity, the business of buying companies, fixing them up and selling them for a profit, is in a bind. The industry boomed during the era of low interest rates, when private equity ...

In 2019, when I was working what I have grudgingly come to accept may be one of the best jobs I’ll ever have, my employer, Gizmodo Media Group, was acquired by a private equity firm called Great ...