{"id":467155,"date":"2026-05-04T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/467155\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:48:11","slug":"trillions-in-us-retirement-dollars-flow-into-opaque-trusts-that-rival-etfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/467155\/","title":{"rendered":"Trillions in US Retirement Dollars Flow Into Opaque Trusts That Rival ETFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">At the heart of the US retirement industry, underpinning the later-life plans of millions of Americans, is a set of financial products that hardly anyone can tell you a thing about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">No one knows exactly how much money they control. No one can say how it\u2019s all allocated. No single financial regulator is in charge of them. Yet Collective Investment Trusts are now a multi-trillion dollar business to rival mutual funds or ETFs \u2014 and are poised to become the backdoor through which more private assets are added to Americans\u2019 retirement savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the heart of the US retirement industry, underpinning the later-life plans of millions of Americans, is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[177],"tags":[79,6862,18,35042,19,54319,17,6045,188,111656,5759,234,235,254,11994,13310,205102,205101],"class_list":["post-467155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-congress","tag-eire","tag-etf","tag-ie","tag-investment-management","tag-ireland","tag-labor","tag-markets","tag-morningstar-inc","tag-mutual-funds","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-private-equity","tag-regulation","tag-retirement-plans","tag-the-big-take","tag-us-securities-and-exchange-commission"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116513557996402985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}