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Demonstrating how private equity has outperformed public markets and other asset classes over 5-, 10-, 15-, and 20-year time horizons, even when accounting for fees. The report also…

The 2025 public pension study, showing how private equity continues to deliver steady, reliable, and robust returns for public pension funds and the teachers, firefighters, and other public…

The report provides new data on the national impact of private equity investments, as well as detailed statistics for all 50 states on jobs, wages and benefits, and…

Evaluates private equity fund returns each quarter relative to public market indexes, based on publicly available benchmarks and public pension fund returns over multiple time horizons.

Highlighting how private equity delivered the strongest returns for public pension portfolios. In 2023, private equity investments delivered a median annualized return of 15.2 percent over a 10-year…