{"id":144690,"date":"2025-09-18T04:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144690\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:12:11","slug":"private-markets-exposure-rises-at-top-pension-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144690\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Markets\u2019 Exposure Rises at Top Pension Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Regulation and compliance have driven an unprecedented wall of US retirement money into private assets, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/T2OHI1GQ7L5W\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-component=\"link\">reportBloomberg Terminal<\/a> by Bloomberg Intelligence shows, casting new light on the real-world risks from finance\u2019s continued push into areas beyond the traditional oversight of regulators. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The top 20 US pension funds alone hold about half a trillion dollars of private market exposure, the analysts found, with some having doubled their allocations to unlisted investments over the past decade. Exposures across the broader $43.4 trillion of US retirement assets are also rising, against a backdrop of declining numbers of US publicly-traded companies and evermore privately-held <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-02-14\/silicon-valley-unicorn-startups-are-desperate-for-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">unicorns<\/a> worth more than $1 billion apiece. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regulation and compliance have driven an unprecedented wall of US retirement money into private assets, a new reportBloomberg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[66801,13514,84,49036,4176,10793,467,4517,4174,4175,305,13858,4605,306,56,54,55,4213],"class_list":["post-144690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-alternative-investments","tag-august","tag-business","tag-etf","tag-finance","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-markets","tag-mutual-funds","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-policy","tag-private-credit","tag-private-equity","tag-regulation","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}