Fund company Vanguard has announced it will let qualified individual investors access a private equity strategy directly through the company. This strategy will be available to eligible non ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vanguard and Wellington have only recently begun building out their private markets capabilities. Blackstone, meanwhile, offers several private investment strategies geared toward retail channels.

In any case, Vanguard noted that several misconceptions about the strategy remain. For starters, the 60/40 approach shouldn't be considered a one-size-fits-all, but more of a proxy for balance.

A New Type of Fund Promises Access to Private Markets … at a Price This vehicle sits at the nexus of two colliding trends in investing.