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Elizabeth Warren: “Studies suggest that private market investments have…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Private Equity's Next Victim: Retirement Accounts

Published | Video Starts at 03:47

But that's just not what the recent data show. Recent data shows that private equity doesn't make more money for their clients than plain old stocks and bonds. In fact, Studies suggest that private market investments have consistently underperformed publicly traded companies. So to review high fees, low performance, less transparency, that's just a bad deal any way you slice it. Oh, but wait, it is a good deal for someone, the private equity billionaires. (03:47–03:56)

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Asserts that private market investments underperform compared to publicly traded companies.

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