Perspective on Recent Market Volatility
Our colleagues discuss recent volatility in financial markets and provide perspective on these events.
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Our colleagues discuss recent volatility in financial markets and provide perspective on these events.
This year has been yet another reminder that the prediction game can be a losing one for investors.
Private equity investing has created enormous wealth for those fortunate to be the general partners of a fund. But for regular investors – the limited partners – recent studies show that when properly adjusted for risks, PE returns lag those of the less risky public markets. Moreover, there is little evidence that investors can identify, in advance, the very few PE funds that will outperform.
Recent studies show that the returns to equity investors have historically come from a relatively small number of stocks. Investors who fail to adequately diversify increase their chances of failing to own those high-performing stocks, and they are not compensated for the risks they do bear.
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