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Barron's Streetwise

Does Private Equity Beat Stocks, or Nah?

Barron's Streetwise

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4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Jack hears from researchers, industry founders, a pension manager, and a co-author of one of two recent pirate-themed private equity takedowns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:16.4

The general partners, which largely includes pension plans, other retirement accounts,

0:23.0

unions, etc. At this point, Netafees, the returns that they're getting look

0:28.0

heck of a lot like index funds.

0:32.1

Hello and welcome to the Baron Streetwise podcast. I'm Jack Howe, and the voice you just heard

0:37.7

is Joshua Rosner. He's a co-author on a book on private equity that came out this year.

0:45.4

It's got plunder in the title. Actually, there are two books that came out this year with plunder

0:50.4

in the title. It's complicated. We'll come to that. The books say that private equity is harmful

0:56.0

to society. One of them says the investor returns stink too. There's plenty of pushback on both

1:01.9

those points. That's complicated too. Listening in is our audio producer meta. Hi Metta.

1:08.4

Hi Jeff. There's no time for small talk. A lot to get to. Anything you can tell me in two to

1:14.1

three words it's going on? Watching British Bake Off. I take it that's a show and it again.

1:23.8

Oh, now you're disqualified. That's four words. I'm sorry Metta. I was going to go with

1:30.0

cut-own hair. It's just now occurring to me that kind of a slow week for both of us.

1:36.1

Maybe it's just as well that there's no time for small talk. I understand we have a listener question.

1:41.2

Why don't we jump right into it? Who do we have? We have a question from Ray. Where's he from? He

1:46.8

doesn't say. Sounds like California. Let's hear it. Hello Jack. This is Ray and I really enjoy

1:54.9

your podcast and I learn every time I listen to it. Thank you. The question is rather short and

2:01.4

simple. When I invest in a Blackstone Carlisle group or KKR stocks, what am I exactly investing

2:12.1

in? Because it seems like they have high network partners and investors in the fair.

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