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The investment benefits of traditional alternatives: venture capital, private debt and private equity

Alternative investments, such as venture capital and private equity, offer institutional investors a means of diversifying their portfolio, offering risk and return opportunities not found in traditional investments. Thomas Schneeweis of the University of Massachusetts assesses the benefits of private equity as part of an investor's overall portfolio.

Private equity offers a broad range of benefits to limited partners, including the enhancement of portfolio returns when combined with other investments and the opportunity to participate in a variety of investments not available to the public markets.

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Thomas Schneeweis is director and associate director of CISDM/School of Management at the University of Massachusetts.  For more information please visit www.som.umass.edu