The year 2018 has been one of transition and expansion at the Fortress Investment Group. After two decades of headline-making leadership in the investing world, the past year was marked by Fortress’s integration into one of the world’s most prominent financial conglomerates, the SoftBank Group Corporation. The purchase — for…

From the moment of its formation in 1998 — when it was founded as a private equity firm — Fortress Investment Group has been a trendsetter. …

The first private equity firm in the U.S. to be publicly traded has now become the first private equity firm in the U.S. to be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. Now that it has been acquired by SoftBank, the Japanese multinational holding conglomerate-and 38th largest publicly traded company…