The Pulse of Private Equity – 4/20/2020

Different problems for real assets

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With fear permeating the real estate market, real assets are once again coming into focus. An upcoming PitchBook analyst note provides a retrospective on 2008 and potential implications for the current situation. Cash management was difficult for LPs twelve years ago. Real assets funds aged between four and eight years, normally in prime harvesting mode, distributed only about 5% of committed capital on average annually between 2007 and 2010.