Private equity is no longer an alternative asset class
David Chan | MLC Asset Management | 22 February 2023 | 0.50 CE
As more and more companies are choosing to remain private for longer, the Private Equity (PE) opportunity can no longer be ignored. In an increasingly VUCA world, PE remains a sustainable source of alpha, still able to access proprietary deals leveraging asymmetric information, at a time when public markets have become a technological and AI-driven arms race to rapidly process near perfect information availability. The opportunity cost of not being invested in PE is too high. Its inclusion as an alternative asset in portfolios is an out-of-date approach that doe...