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title: How do Private Equity Buyouts Affect Employee Pension Plans?
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4818003/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4818003
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4818003
featured: 2024-05-08
citations: 0
topic: Corporate Finance
---


# How do Private Equity Buyouts Affect Employee Pension Plans?

The research shows that private equity buyouts can harm the retirement welfare of target firms' defined benefit plan participants, as these plans are often frozen, terminated, or replaced with inadequate substitutes.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4818003
- Identifier: SSRN 4818003
- Released: 2024-05-05
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 48 (2024-05-08): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-05-08/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 0
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Corporate Finance

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