Pension Funds

Private Equity Is Sitting on 33,575 Zombie Companies. You’re Probably Working for One.

📅 August 14, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

Private equity firms are sitting on 33,575 unsold businesses — companies trapped in a valuation gap between what firms paid and what the market will pay. The buy-and-sell engine is jammed, and the consequences won’t hit Wall Street. They’ll hit pensions, retirement savings, and the millions of employees working for companies stuck in PE purgatory.

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Your Pension Is Being Quietly Wiped Out by Climate Math Nobody Warned You About

📅 July 20, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

The world’s largest pension funds are being forced to run the numbers on extreme climate scenarios — and the results threaten the retirement savings of hundreds of millions. The real driver of climate divestment won’t be activists or politicians. It’ll be a chief investment officer staring at a stress test that says the fund is underwater in a 3°C world. Climate action won’t be forced by conscience. It’ll be forced by accounting.

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