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Why long-term investors should look to private equity for returns?“Private equity has outperformed listed markets over the long term. Because private equity is so geared towards long-term performance, it’s perfectly suited to drive pension funds’ performance.”
What I'm really looking for is continued access being provided to European Pension funds and private individuals get access to private equity for their pensions. I'm Merrick McKay, I'm head of private equity for Patria Global Private Market Solutions ,we're specialist private Equity investors. Our job is to set about developing sophisticated private equity programs for institutional investors who are looking to get access to the best in class opportunities for their overall portfolios it's generally acknowledged that private equity has outperformed listed markets by 300 or 500 basis points over the long term although at a cost of liquidity but this really shouldn't matter for pension plans who are longterm investors where that shortterm volatility doesn't come into account and that's why private equity should play a crucial and significant part of any large invest or Pension funds allocation.
I think the biggest challenge for the private equity industry particularly in Europe is how it's able to develop or be a much larger part of pension funds private equity portfolios when we look at the US market where typically a lot of sophisticated investors invest more than 10 of their portfolio in private equity in Europe it's more like around 3 and a half and because private equity is so geared towards longterm performance and has demonstrated continue outperformance it's perfectly suited to really drive pension funds size and performance for individuals and institutions what I'm really looking for is continued access being provided to European Pension funds and private individuals get access to private equity for their pensioners.
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