Private equity has been growing in popularity over the last few years, and it has become more and more of a focus this year. Now a pair of recent reports point to some rather alarming trends in the private equity industry. These trends are further signs of excess within what is now the longest-running bull market in recorded history. Private equity performance To capture a picture of how private equity funds stack up to the public equity markets in performance, Michael Cembalest of J.P. Morgan Asset Management used the Public Market Equivalent (PME) ratio. He also divided private equity funds…
This May Make You Think Twice Before Investing More In Private Equity
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.