Retail Investors Risk Ominous Opportunity Cost With Private Investments, Moody’s Warns

Retail Investors Risk Ominous Opportunity Cost With Private Investments, Moody’s Warns

Is Wall Street unwittingly copying Wile E. Coyote’s newfangled traps for the Road Runner by promoting new products for individual investors that will invariably backfire? Maybe so, says Moody’s, which warned this week that increasing efforts to sell private equity and private debt funds to retail investors may not end especially well.  While there’s a chance the movement could open up “higher-return opportunities to ordinary investors” that were…