{"id":355909,"date":"2026-03-30T23:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355909\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:19:06","slug":"trump-proposes-crypto-private-equity-in-more-401k-retirement-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355909\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump proposes crypto, private equity in more 401(k) retirement plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CVLKDS7T7VAS3EXSFM5IF2LOJE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Employees could use their workplace retirement plans to invest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/07\/17\/house-passes-first-major-regulation-crypto-industry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cryptocurrencies<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/03\/24\/child-care-costs-private-equity-investigation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">private equity<\/a> and other \u201calternative assets\u201d under a proposal released Monday by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5CRDOQVFPVEE3BVVOZPQXPGKTU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The plan is a victory for Wall Street, which has lobbied for wider access to these products, many of which have long been the domain of the wealthy and large institutional investors like pension funds and insurance companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employees could use their workplace retirement plans to invest in cryptocurrencies, private equity and other \u201calternative assets\u201d under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-355909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}