LPs Want More Than Returns

Private Equity Professional

July 30, 2026

Private equity investors are asking harder questions than they were a few years ago. Knowing that a portfolio beat public markets is no longer enough. Boards, CIOs, and investment committees now want to know what produced the result and whether it can be repeated. Was the return earned through manager selection? Strategy allocation? The timing of when capital went to work? Or did the market simply do the heavy lifting? Learn more in this piece from Sofia Gertsberg, HarbourVest’s head of Quantitative Investment Science here.

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