One of private equity's biggest sources of investing income may soon dry up. Their loss could be your gain.
FORTUNE -- Private equity isn't all that private. More than 25% of the industry's money actually comes from U.S. public pension systems, which represent everything from firefighters to teachers to subway workers. From 2001 to 2010, that worked out to approximately $385 billion for domestic private equity coffers. This cannot last forever. In the coming decades private equity will need to find a new, supplementary capital source. And I'm thinking it will be you, Joe Investor.
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