Sofia Gertsberg: Private Equity Valuations, Benchmarks, and the Truth About Returns
For wealth professionals considering or monitoring private equity exposure, the episode frames the due-diligence questions behind reported returns: benchmark choice, valuation frequency, and cash distributions.
Summary
By the private equity & secondaries deskSofia Gertsberg of HarbourVest joins Enterprising Investor to discuss why private equity performance is difficult to measure and compare. The episode covers conflicting benchmarks, infrequent valuations, unrealized gains, and the gap between reported returns and cash distributions. It also asks what allocators and advisers should demand as private equity expands into wealth management and retirement portfolios.
- Private equity performance is hard to measure and compare because of conflicting benchmarks and infrequent valuations.
- Unrealized gains can create a gap between paper returns and actual cash distributions.
- Investment-level benchmarking could help distinguish manager skill from leverage, market exposure, and valuation effects.
- As private equity expands into wealth management and retirement portfolios, the discussion asks what institutional allocators and financial advisers should demand.
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