Any studies/books that provide a comprehensive analysis of the historic average performance of different asset classes? (Primarily focussing on alternatives)
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Analyst 1 in IB - Gen, have you checked out these or run a search:
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I hope those threads give you a bit more insight.
Pitchbook has some very very good resources, a little hard to say ping me because there are like 15 that would be useful for you if you can get your hands on an account.
A source that has some public facing reports, Google: returns site:preqin.com filetype:PDF
Craig Siegenthaler from CS puts out a good AM industry report every year. The 2021 version quotes alt returns from 2015 to 2020 at ~12% for PE, ~8% for RE, ~9% for Infra and ~5% for Private Debt. Higher than other asset classes but still 100-300bps below what they were in 2010.. They cite increased competition for transactions and larger funds with more capital deployments required as reasons. The 2020 endpoint is in Q1 before COVID
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