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

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

The executive order, expected this week, aims to unlock the $9 trillion retirement market by allowing 401(k) plans to invest ...

Donald Trump is getting ready to tear open the gates of America’s retirement savings system. The former president plans to ...

BlackRock Inc. said it expects to start offering its own target-date retirement funds that include private assets next year, the latest push by the $12.5 trillion money manager to bring alternatives ...

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 ...

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

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 is ramping up plans to offer more of its private-market products to individuals outside the U.S. as it increasingly tries to muscle in on one of the hottest areas in global finance.

BlackRock Inc. said insurance executives overseeing $29 trillion plan to pour more money into private debt and credit strategies while cutting back on private equity and real estate. Of 378 senior ...