How Private Equity Got Its Hands on Billions in Americans’ Retirement Money
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Episode How Private Equity Got Its Hands on Billions in Americans’ Retirement Money
Apollo Global Management reinvented how pensions could be managed and paid out — by taking them over and moving the risks offshore. Other firms have followed suit and ushered hundreds of billions of dollars in American retirement savings into accounts that retirees and economists say are exposed to higher risk.
On today’s Big Take podcast, host Sarah Holder sits down with Bloomberg reporters Alex Rajbhandari and Tom Schoenberg, who investigated this phenomenon and explain what it means for the people whose nest eggs ended up on private equity’s opaque balance sheets.
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• The Offshoring of America’s Retirement Savings • When Wall Street’s Insurance Playbook Goes Wrong
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