Limited Partner Magazine

Is big really beautiful?

Is big really beautiful?

  • 2015年10月7日
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Limited Partner Magazine

Is big really beautiful?

Private equity may have improved its transparency since the financial crisis, but to the outside world it is still shrouded in mystery. The only people who really know how it performs are the LPs, and they are the ones putting their money where their mouth is.

"In a world where private equity returns over the past five years or so have done no better than public markets and we have a huge amount – record amounts – of capital chasing companies, and sky high prices with sky high levels of debt, you're interested in investing in private equity – but should you be? Is this still an attractive place to be?" Hugh MacArthur, the global leader of Bain & Company's Private Equity practice, asked delegates at the AltAssets LP Summit in June.