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Private equity's benchmark blues

Private equity funds have yet to master the art of talking to institutional investors in risk-conscious terms. They're not helped by the lack of an accepted methodology for benchmarking their performance. Ben Sills investigates.

The fact that private equity has only recently entered into the mainstream for institutional investors may help to explain the caution that is held on both sides. Many institutional investors simply don't understand the market and, similarly, many private equity firms are unwilling to understand investors. This is especially true when discussing the issue of benchmarking.

Copyright © 2002 Global Investor

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Ben Sills is a journalist with Global Investor.

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