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Vanguard Group's private equity retail push gets real as it launches buyer-beware products this summer to its brokerage accounts as prelude to selection for 'suitability' through its RIA

The $7.1 trillion Malvern, Pa., manager will first sell HarbourVest private shares with stern warnings before making alts part of Vanguard Personal Advisor Services portfolios

Author Brooke Southall May 26, 2021 at 2:42 AM
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Matt Benchener: Investors who can access high-quality, broadly diversified strategies with top private equity managers can potentially realize significant financial benefits.

Jamie McLaugthlin

Jamie McLaugthlin

May 26, 2021 — 2:26 PM
Sad, actually. Even the estimable Vanguard Group, can't find enough earwax to muffle the siren calls of the manufacturing and distribution complex.
Jarshman

Jarshman

May 26, 2021 — 6:58 PM
You should not be able to be a fiduciary and a non fiduciary to the same clients at the same time.

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