Advisers to President Donald Trump are considering a new directive to pave the way for private equity to become a bigger piece of US retirement savings. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

shout out to Ed Helms for the perfect endorsement of Bloomberg (and we don't just do finance news!).

When KKR & Co. thought about the future of a unit investing in the most sluggish part of private markets, it turned to a hot sector. Our look at the creation of the firm's Real Assets unit and what's next. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Private equity firms are taking the longest in more than a decade to give investors their money back. Elite college endowments, some of their most dependable clients, can’t wait much longer. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bloomberg's Canadian election tracker looks great. I'll be following closely (from afar!) to see how my fellow citizens vote. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

the best part of going to IKEA is imagining all the great upgrades you can make to your apartment, then getting overwhelmed and just walking out with a new vase and some candles.

Private equity firms are angling for a piece of your 401(k). My colleague Dawn Lim and I delved into how the industry is positioning itself to tap a sliver of the roughly $12 trillion held in defined-contribution retirement plans. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

KKR & Co.’s plan to break from the traditional buyout model and hold some bets on its own books for decades is being directed by a tight-knit group, including co-founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

KKR is tapping new leaders for its Global Atlantic insurance unit and moving Allan Levine, its CEO and co-founder, into the role of executive chairman. Billy Butcher and Manu Sareen will become co-heads of Global Atlantic and lead day-to-day operations. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Blue Owl Capital has raised more than $1 billion for its first strategy backing continuation vehicles by offering a unique sweetener to early investors -- they get a cut of the fees in a retail fund that will be raised alongside the institutional fund. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🎙️ LIVE AT 12PM EST: How are investors and business leaders navigating new uncertainty and opportunity in 2025? It's a theme infused in this year's #BloombergInvest in New York. Bloomberg journalists will answer your questions in a Live Q&A: bloom.bg/3EWKHp3

Looking forward to joining this event with a few of my colleagues on Monday. Hope you'll tune in.

As a Canadian (who lives in the US), I've been curious if Americans broadly realize -- or care -- how mad their northern neighbours are right now. Great story from @geoffmorgan.bsky.social. (My mom also switched her dog's food to a Canadian brand.) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Private equity firms face a sober reckoning on their renewable energy bets. Simply put, a lot of those startups aren’t worth nearly what their sponsors paid for them, and some of those zero-emission ventures are just plain zeroes. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

KKR has gathered around $14 billion ahead of a first close of its North America private equity fund, a sign of momentum during a difficult environment for the asset class. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Donald Trump is once again saying he wants to end a tax perk used by private equity fund managers, a policy feat that politicians have tried and failed to achieve for more than a decade. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

KKR has hired Melissa Kivett as its first head of defined contribution to lead the alternative asset manager's efforts to develop products and partnerships to sell private assets into 401(k) plans. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

KKR & Co. is moving its infrastructure and real estate assets under the same leadership as it looks to capitalize on converging opportunities between the rapidly expanding investing units. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Private equity has embraced a form on financial engineering that allows firms to hold onto assets for longer while generating returns for initial investors. Now that strategy is running into trouble. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Sending myself money for winning the fantasy football league that I’m co-commissioner of

Todd Boehly's Security Benefit Life has produced market-leading returns through a strategy of investing in loans to affiliated companies. But that strategy has raised concerns in some corners of the life insurance industry. Latest, with @alexrajbhandari.bsky.social. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Read this amazing story from Dawn Lim and Josh Saul about what happened to Fayetteville, Georgia, when a Blackstone-backed data-center developer came to town. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A great list of things to read and listen to thanks to Businessweek's annual Jealousy List www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

A booming market to inject fresh money into hard-to-sell energy assets owned by private equity firms is drawing interest from hedge funds and other investors, leading to big wins and steep losses. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

More Bloomberg News reporters and editors have been added to our starter pack of Bloomberg News journalists. We hope you <GO> and follow them!

Apollo Global Management Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Rowan’s potential next act as US Treasury secretary would thrust the firm he co-founded into an entirely new era of leadership. It may also help unlock trillions of dollars for its hottest business line. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The biggest private equity firms are gearing up to push for including private assets in 401(k)s as they see a friendlier regulatory environment under President-elect Donald Trump's administration. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Carried interest is back. Performance-related pay at private equity firms has risen 33% in the first 9 months of the year compared to 2023 as deal-making has returned. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...