Private Equity Program Breadth and Strategic Asset Allocation
By Jason Mao, Nan Zhang, State Street Associates
Mar 1, 2019
By Alexander Rudin, Jason Mao, Nan R. Zhang, and Anne-Marie Fink.
Published in the Journal of Private Equity, Spring 2019.
We create a custom “synthetic” peer group for each private equity program that mirrors the program’s strategy mix and number of fund commitments actually made each year. Our enhanced methodology corrects for the program breadth bias and creates a fairer process for assessing a program manager’s skill.
