Probably not - from the Economist.
Let's look at a few characteristics of Private Equity.
1. PE has crazy high fees - 2/20.
2. PE underperforms
3. PE has artificially low volatility because its values are assessed by management (not the market).
4. PE is horribly illiquid.
All in all Private Equity sounds awful. And yet institutional investors line up for it.
HT: Finance II at Tepper.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Are we still talking about the Fed Model?
Yes, but not in a very nice way.
A great quote:
If you don't know what the Fed Model is - you can check an earlier post on the subject.
A great quote:
The fallacy of the model is quite simple. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS EARNINGS YIELD. The earnings yield is simply the inverse of the P/E ratio whereby corporate earnings are divided by the price of the market. However, as an investor in a stock you do not receive the earnings yield in the form of a cash payment. However, YOU DO receive the interest yield from bonds.
If you don't know what the Fed Model is - you can check an earlier post on the subject.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Fees at the NC State Pension Fund increase 28%
The investment fees paid to Wall Street firms to manage the state pension fund increased 28% last year. According to the investorcookbooks blog, currently 27% of all new teacher and state employee contributions go to Wall Street.
To put this in perspective - the current fees are about 40 basis points of the $75 billion under management. That may not seem like much, but about half the portfolio is managed in house (the fixed income piece) and so these 40 basis points are going to the equity and alternatives which make up the other half of the portfolio. Simple math implies that the average fee on these assets must be well above 40b.p. Considering that the fees on institutional equity index funds can be well below 10b.p., these fees seem high.
Unfortunately, overpaying Wall Street in the hope of beating the market is an affliction suffered by pretty much all state pension funds - which is a shame, because this is an easy way for a state to save a couple of hundred million dollars a year.
To put this in perspective - the current fees are about 40 basis points of the $75 billion under management. That may not seem like much, but about half the portfolio is managed in house (the fixed income piece) and so these 40 basis points are going to the equity and alternatives which make up the other half of the portfolio. Simple math implies that the average fee on these assets must be well above 40b.p. Considering that the fees on institutional equity index funds can be well below 10b.p., these fees seem high.
Unfortunately, overpaying Wall Street in the hope of beating the market is an affliction suffered by pretty much all state pension funds - which is a shame, because this is an easy way for a state to save a couple of hundred million dollars a year.
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