June 2021
For many asset owners, private equity is an integral part of their portfolio’s asset allocation.
With global interest rates at historic lows since 2010, government bonds no longer provided adequate yields to meet return targets. As a result, many asset owners have been forced to diversify from domestic bonds and allocate more to riskier and less liquid but higher yielding alternative assets. Babloo Sarin, our head of asset owners for Asia Pacific, shares his insights on the challenges of performance and measurement of these less-liquid investments, fair benchmarking, and how a multi-asset class platform can help to create a full and accurate picture.