{"id":477777,"date":"2026-02-19T12:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477777\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:01:17","slug":"how-private-equity-is-targeting-your-401k-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477777\/","title":{"rendered":"How Private Equity Is Targeting Your 401(k) Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Every time the phone rings, Erik Daley can practically hear private equity coming for America\u2019s 401(k)s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The line has been ringing a lot lately at his modest consulting business in Portland, Oregon. For at least the past year he&#8217;s been getting a half-dozen calls a week from private equity and other firms interested in his company, and even more since the start of 2026. He\u2019s gotten used to hearing the same question from the other end: How much for your firm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every time the phone rings, Erik Daley can practically hear private equity coming for America\u2019s 401(k)s. The line&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[220871,29014,28,132684,9135,29240,112,20112,147,530,3201,13492,918,1432,3643],"class_list":{"0":"post-477777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-401-k-plan-co-the","9":"tag-alternative-investments","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-carlyle-group-inc-the","12":"tag-executives","13":"tag-kkr-co-inc","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-mutual-funds","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-personalfinance","18":"tag-private-equity","19":"tag-retirement-plans","20":"tag-wall-street","21":"tag-wealth","22":"tag-wealth-management"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}