Performance of Private Equity Funds
July 3, 2025 - Equity Premium
Do private equity funds beat the public equity market, as implied by allocations of large investors such as university endowments, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds? In his June 2025 paper entitled “Apples and Oranges: Benchmarking Games and the Illusion of Private Equity Outperformance”, Ludovic Phalippou updates private equity fund performance, focusing on 2000-2019 vintage… Keep Reading