Private Equity

A: Private Equity

Q: Want to learn how to earn 44% annual returns from a portion of your investment portfolio?

If you want to boost the performance of your portfolio, then consider private equity. From 1992-2002, the top 25% of U.S. private equity managers returned 44.5% annually while the second 25% of private equity managers only returned 14.3% (Source: Venture Economics, Morningstar Principia). The returns of top private equity firms have been so solid that even private institutional endowments like that of Yale University expects almost a third of their portfolio return to come from the 17.5 % it had invested in private equity (Source: Yale Endowment 2003 report).

The risks of private equity are often misunderstood. Even though a lot of wealthy people have been investing in private equity for many years, it is still an investment vehicle surrounded by confusion and misunderstanding. Read more …

Add comment August 1st, 2006