In recent years we’ve seen a number of trends in the financial markets develop, and one such trend is an increasing preference for private-equity funds over other alternative assets like hedge funds. Surveys which have identified this trend haven’t offered much insight on why it is happening, although a few ideas have been suggested. Now analysts at one firm have offered up some more ideas. Private equity has outperformed equities Jelena Kucenko and Sarah Leissner of Credit Suisse reported recently that the Private Equity PECCI Index, which records a return on committed capital, has outperformed global equities by about 350…
This Is Why Private Equity Is Stealing Hedge Funds’ Thunder
Michelle deBoer-Jones
Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.
