Allison McNeely
@allisonmcneely.bsky.social
Bloomberg News reporter covering private equity. amcneely@bloomberg.net. Canadian in New York.
Advisers to President Donald Trump are considering a new directive to pave the way for private equity to become a bigger piece of US retirement savings. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
White House Weighs Directive to Bring Private Equity to 401(k)s
Advisers to President Donald Trump are considering a new directive to pave the way for private equity to become a bigger piece of US retirement savings, according to people familiar with the matter.
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May 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Advisers to President Donald Trump are considering a new directive to pave the way for private equity to become a bigger piece of US retirement savings. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
shout out to Ed Helms for the perfect endorsement of Bloomberg (and we don't just do finance news!).
May 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
shout out to Ed Helms for the perfect endorsement of Bloomberg (and we don't just do finance news!).
When KKR & Co. thought about the future of a unit investing in the most sluggish part of private markets, it turned to a hot sector. Our look at the creation of the firm's Real Assets unit and what's next. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
KKR’s Infrastructure Whisperer Looks to Reawaken Property Arm
When KKR & Co. thought about the future of a unit investing in the most sluggish part of private markets, it turned to a hot sector.
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May 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
When KKR & Co. thought about the future of a unit investing in the most sluggish part of private markets, it turned to a hot sector. Our look at the creation of the firm's Real Assets unit and what's next. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Private equity firms are taking the longest in more than a decade to give investors their money back. Elite college endowments, some of their most dependable clients, can’t wait much longer. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Elite Colleges Lead a Rush for the Exits of Private Equity
Private equity firms are taking the longest in more than a decade to give investors their money back. Elite college endowments, some of their most dependable clients, can’t wait much longer.
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May 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Private equity firms are taking the longest in more than a decade to give investors their money back. Elite college endowments, some of their most dependable clients, can’t wait much longer. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Bloomberg's Canadian election tracker looks great. I'll be following closely (from afar!) to see how my fellow citizens vote. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Canadian Election Live Results 2025
Track Canada’s electoral seats, districts, and key battlegrounds in real time
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April 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Bloomberg's Canadian election tracker looks great. I'll be following closely (from afar!) to see how my fellow citizens vote. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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the best part of going to IKEA is imagining all the great upgrades you can make to your apartment, then getting overwhelmed and just walking out with a new vase and some candles.
April 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
the best part of going to IKEA is imagining all the great upgrades you can make to your apartment, then getting overwhelmed and just walking out with a new vase and some candles.
Private equity firms are angling for a piece of your 401(k).
My colleague Dawn Lim and I delved into how the industry is positioning itself to tap a sliver of the roughly $12 trillion held in defined-contribution retirement plans.
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My colleague Dawn Lim and I delved into how the industry is positioning itself to tap a sliver of the roughly $12 trillion held in defined-contribution retirement plans.
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Private Equity Is Coming for America’s $12 Trillion in Retirement Savings
Inside the push to change how every American’s nest egg is invested and make private assets mainstream.
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March 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Private equity firms are angling for a piece of your 401(k).
My colleague Dawn Lim and I delved into how the industry is positioning itself to tap a sliver of the roughly $12 trillion held in defined-contribution retirement plans.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
My colleague Dawn Lim and I delved into how the industry is positioning itself to tap a sliver of the roughly $12 trillion held in defined-contribution retirement plans.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
KKR & Co.’s plan to break from the traditional buyout model and hold some bets on its own books for decades is being directed by a tight-knit group, including co-founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
KKR Founders Help Drive Its Quest to Become a ‘Mini Berkshire’
KKR & Co.’s plan to break from the traditional buyout model and hold some bets on its own books for decades is being directed by a tight-knit group, including co-founders Henry Kravis and George R...
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March 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
KKR & Co.’s plan to break from the traditional buyout model and hold some bets on its own books for decades is being directed by a tight-knit group, including co-founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
KKR is tapping new leaders for its Global Atlantic insurance unit and moving Allan Levine, its CEO and co-founder, into the role of executive chairman. Billy Butcher and Manu Sareen will become co-heads of Global Atlantic and lead day-to-day operations. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
KKR Names New Global Atlantic Leaders, Succeeding Allan Levine
KKR & Co. is tapping new leaders for its Global Atlantic insurance unit and moving Allan Levine, its CEO and co-founder, into the role of executive chairman.
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March 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
KKR is tapping new leaders for its Global Atlantic insurance unit and moving Allan Levine, its CEO and co-founder, into the role of executive chairman. Billy Butcher and Manu Sareen will become co-heads of Global Atlantic and lead day-to-day operations. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Blue Owl Capital has raised more than $1 billion for its first strategy backing continuation vehicles by offering a unique sweetener to early investors -- they get a cut of the fees in a retail fund that will be raised alongside the institutional fund. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Blue Owl Gathers $1 Billion After Pitching an Unusual Sweetener
Blue Owl Capital Inc. gathered at least $1 billion of commitments after pitching an unorthodox incentive to anchor investors in a strategy backing asset-shuffling private equity deals.
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March 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Blue Owl Capital has raised more than $1 billion for its first strategy backing continuation vehicles by offering a unique sweetener to early investors -- they get a cut of the fees in a retail fund that will be raised alongside the institutional fund. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Allison McNeely
🎙️ LIVE AT 12PM EST: How are investors and business leaders navigating new uncertainty and opportunity in 2025? It's a theme infused in this year's #BloombergInvest in New York.
Bloomberg journalists will answer your questions in a Live Q&A: bloom.bg/3EWKHp3
Bloomberg journalists will answer your questions in a Live Q&A: bloom.bg/3EWKHp3
March 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🎙️ LIVE AT 12PM EST: How are investors and business leaders navigating new uncertainty and opportunity in 2025? It's a theme infused in this year's #BloombergInvest in New York.
Bloomberg journalists will answer your questions in a Live Q&A: bloom.bg/3EWKHp3
Bloomberg journalists will answer your questions in a Live Q&A: bloom.bg/3EWKHp3
Looking forward to joining this event with a few of my colleagues on Monday. Hope you'll tune in.
🎙️ SAVE THE DATE: How are investors and business leaders navigating new uncertainty and opportunity in 2025? It's a theme infused in this year's #BloombergInvest in New York.
Bloomberg journalists will answer questions in a Live Q&A: bloom.bg/3EWKHp3
Bloomberg journalists will answer questions in a Live Q&A: bloom.bg/3EWKHp3
February 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Looking forward to joining this event with a few of my colleagues on Monday. Hope you'll tune in.
As a Canadian (who lives in the US), I've been curious if Americans broadly realize -- or care -- how mad their northern neighbours are right now. Great story from @geoffmorgan.bsky.social. (My mom also switched her dog's food to a Canadian brand.) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Buy Canada, Bye America’: Trump’s Taunts Spur Fury in the North
Grocery stores are promoting homegrown produce to consumers as 85% of Canadians hunt for alternatives to US goods.
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February 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As a Canadian (who lives in the US), I've been curious if Americans broadly realize -- or care -- how mad their northern neighbours are right now. Great story from @geoffmorgan.bsky.social. (My mom also switched her dog's food to a Canadian brand.) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Private equity firms face a sober reckoning on their renewable energy bets. Simply put, a lot of those startups aren’t worth nearly what their sponsors paid for them, and some of those zero-emission ventures are just plain zeroes. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Private Equity’s Zero-Emission Bets Rack Up Lots of Zero Returns
Private equity firms face a sober reckoning on their renewable energy bets. Simply put, a lot of those startups aren’t worth nearly what their sponsors paid for them, and some of those zero-emission v...
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February 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Private equity firms face a sober reckoning on their renewable energy bets. Simply put, a lot of those startups aren’t worth nearly what their sponsors paid for them, and some of those zero-emission ventures are just plain zeroes. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
KKR has gathered around $14 billion ahead of a first close of its North America private equity fund, a sign of momentum during a difficult environment for the asset class. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
KKR Nears $14 Billion for Buyout Fund in Show of Momentum
KKR & Co. is more than halfway to a $20 billion money-raising goal for its North America buyout fund, a sign of momentum during a difficult environment for the asset class.
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February 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
KKR has gathered around $14 billion ahead of a first close of its North America private equity fund, a sign of momentum during a difficult environment for the asset class. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
President Donald Trump is once again saying he wants to end a tax perk used by private equity fund managers, a policy feat that politicians have tried and failed to achieve for more than a decade. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Takes Aim at Private Equity’s Favorite Tax Loophole Again
President Donald Trump is once again saying he wants to end a tax perk used by private equity fund managers, a policy feat that politicians have tried and failed to achieve for more than a decade.
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February 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
President Donald Trump is once again saying he wants to end a tax perk used by private equity fund managers, a policy feat that politicians have tried and failed to achieve for more than a decade. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
KKR has hired Melissa Kivett as its first head of defined contribution to lead the alternative asset manager's efforts to develop products and partnerships to sell private assets into 401(k) plans. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
KKR Hires First Head of Defined Contribution in 401(k) Push
KKR & Co. hired its first head of defined contribution as the alternative asset manager looks to make its investments a bigger presence in retirement products for individuals.
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January 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
KKR has hired Melissa Kivett as its first head of defined contribution to lead the alternative asset manager's efforts to develop products and partnerships to sell private assets into 401(k) plans. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
KKR & Co. is moving its infrastructure and real estate assets under the same leadership as it looks to capitalize on converging opportunities between the rapidly expanding investing units.
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KKR Combines $157 Billion Infrastructure, Real Estate Businesses
KKR & Co. is moving its infrastructure and real estate assets under the same leadership as it looks to capitalize on converging opportunities between the rapidly expanding investing units.
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January 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
KKR & Co. is moving its infrastructure and real estate assets under the same leadership as it looks to capitalize on converging opportunities between the rapidly expanding investing units.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Private equity has embraced a form on financial engineering that allows firms to hold onto assets for longer while generating returns for initial investors. Now that strategy is running into trouble. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Private Equity Faces Pockets of Distress for Long-Held Assets
Private equity firms’ strategy of shuffling assets to buy more time for investments to pan out is starting to show signs of weakness.
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January 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Private equity has embraced a form on financial engineering that allows firms to hold onto assets for longer while generating returns for initial investors. Now that strategy is running into trouble. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Sending myself money for winning the fantasy football league that I’m co-commissioner of
December 31, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Sending myself money for winning the fantasy football league that I’m co-commissioner of
Todd Boehly's Security Benefit Life has produced market-leading returns through a strategy of investing in loans to affiliated companies. But that strategy has raised concerns in some corners of the life insurance industry. Latest, with @alexrajbhandari.bsky.social. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Boehly’s Insurer Reaps Gains and Doubts From Loans to His Firms
Private equity firms have become enamored with insurance and the stable money it provides for credit bets. Todd Boehly is taking it a step further with Security Benefit Life Insurance Co.
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December 20, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Todd Boehly's Security Benefit Life has produced market-leading returns through a strategy of investing in loans to affiliated companies. But that strategy has raised concerns in some corners of the life insurance industry. Latest, with @alexrajbhandari.bsky.social. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Read this amazing story from Dawn Lim and Josh Saul about what happened to Fayetteville, Georgia, when a Blackstone-backed data-center developer came to town. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Blackstone’s Data-Center Ambitions School a City on AI Power Strains
Property owners around Fayetteville, Georgia, are at the front lines of a battle over infrastructure critical to our tech future.
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December 9, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Read this amazing story from Dawn Lim and Josh Saul about what happened to Fayetteville, Georgia, when a Blackstone-backed data-center developer came to town. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
A great list of things to read and listen to thanks to Businessweek's annual Jealousy List www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The Stories We Most Admired in 2024: Businessweek’s Jealousy List
The stories we admired most this year.
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December 6, 2024 at 9:35 PM
A great list of things to read and listen to thanks to Businessweek's annual Jealousy List www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
A booming market to inject fresh money into hard-to-sell energy assets owned by private equity firms is drawing interest from hedge funds and other investors, leading to big wins and steep losses. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Baupost, Elliott Bet Big on Private Equity’s Aging Energy Assets
A booming market to inject fresh money into hard-to-sell energy assets owned by private equity firms is drawing interest from hedge funds and other investors, leading to big wins and steep losses.
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December 5, 2024 at 5:05 PM
A booming market to inject fresh money into hard-to-sell energy assets owned by private equity firms is drawing interest from hedge funds and other investors, leading to big wins and steep losses. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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