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Friday May 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:15am EDT
The private equity industry's influence continues to grow. Private equity firms not only own more companies than ever before, but they are also making a major push to sell their funds to everyday Americans, including through 401(k)s. Journalists who have documented the industry’s impact on the economy and our daily lives share techniques to help you cover it from your own perch.
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Antoine Gara

US private equity and deals editor, Financial Times
I cover buyout firms, the broader private capital industry and oversee a team responsible for the FT's US M&A coverage. Previously, I was a senior editor at Forbes Magazine and won a 2020 SABEW Best in Business award for investigations on Robinhood. I spent the first part of my career... Read More →
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Maureen Farrell

Finance reporter, The New York Times
I cover Wall Street for The New York Times with a focus on private equity firms, hedge funds and billionaires and their influence on the investing world and society at large.

I’ve been covering Wall Street for nearly two decades. Most recently, I spent eight years at The Wall Street Journal where I covered some of the largest tech I.P.O.s — Airbnb, Uber, Lyft and the failed public offering of WeWork. I chronicled the rise and fall of WeWork, its founder... Read More →
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Miriam Gottfried

Reporter, Investing and Wealth Management, The Wall Street Journal
Miriam Gottfried covers investing and wealth management for The Wall Street Journal's Personal Finance Bureau in New York and is co-host of WSJ's Take On the Week podcast. Her reporting focuses on how individuals build and maintain their wealth.

Miriam previously spent more than eight years covering private equity and private markets for the Journal, following the industry as it evolved from targeting institutions and the super-wealthy to marketing its funds to the masses... Read More →
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Megan Greenwell

author & journalist, freelance
Megan Greenwell is the author of the 2025 book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, which was a finalist for SABEW's Best in Business Book Award. A longtime editor at WIRED, Deadspin, New York, and other publications, she is now a contributing writer at... Read More →
Friday May 8, 2026 10:30am - 11:15am EDT
Ormandy West, lobby level

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