Wall Street is feverishly embracing private markets and Vanguard, like other giant money managers, wants a foothold in this booming business. A new fund it is developing with Blackstone and Wellington ...

Vanguard Group held discussions with major alternative asset managers in recent months to explore potential tie-ups that would market private assets to individual investors. The talks with Carlyle ...

As IPOs decline, new ETFs promise retail investors access to private market growth. But are they a smart bet or a risky ...

As Vanguard pushes into private equity, some fans get queasy Critics say it won’t help retail investors; Vanguard says Jack Bogle would approve Last Updated: Dec. 7, 2021 at 7:53 a.m. ET First ...

Index fund pioneer Vanguard Group, the firm likely behind your retirement savings account, is jumping into private equity. The move by $6.2 trillion in assets Vanguard is a watershed, which will ...

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Vanguard, the asset manager best-known for its low-cost passive fund offerings, has moved a step closer to its eventual goal of bringing private equity, an asset class that historically has been ...

Vanguard is not known for entering "hot" markets. The company did not launch tactical-allocation funds following the 1987 stock crash, nor a technology fund during the New Era, nor alternatives ...

Private-equity funds are increasingly available to retail investors. Be careful; the smart money has cashed out. Large institutional investors are the first to exploit a market niche. Only when ...

Private equity has outperformed other private markets asset classes with less volatility since 2008. And as the chart below illustrates, though performance dispersion is higher in private equity ...

The Vanguard Emerging Markets ex-China ETF will make its debut later this summer. Many investors have been unsettled by turmoil surrounding China's trade relationship with the United States, even ...