Family offices taking a shine to private equity: report
| Mar 29th, 2010 | Filed under: Private Equity, Today's Post | By: AAA Staff |
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If there’s one source of potential investor funds that has long enamored the alternative investment industry, it is the coveted family office. Flush with cash, less demanding on the transparency front, in need of diversification and not answerable to a larger corporate or government structure; getting a check from a family office has been the ideal.
Problem is, family offices have never been hugely enamored by alternative investment funds, particularly hedge funds and private equity funds, much for the same reasons as many others: long lock-ups, high fees, use of leverage and, for many strategies, a lack of liquidity. In most cases, nice and easy stocks and bonds have been the way to go. More…
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