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Buyout Performance with Assets Valued at Market

alphaarchitect

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Private equity has become a core allocation for many pension funds, endowments, and other institutional investors. One of its attractions is the belief that buyout funds can generate returns above public equities while exhibiting relatively modest volatility and providing diversification benefits. But measuring private equity risk is unusually difficult. Unlike publicly traded stocks, private equity investments are not continuously marked to market. Their reported Net Asset Values (NAVs) are det...

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