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Bloomberg: Yale’s $2.5 Billion Private Equity Sale Tests Its Vaunted Endowment Model

NEPC’s Sarah Samuels was recently featured in a Bloomberg article examining how Yale’s private equity sale is prompting a broader conversation about the future of the endowment model at elite universities. Visit Bloomberg’s website to read the full article.

 

“What we’re seeing now is fear, which is common when there’s uncertainty,” said Sarah Samuels, a partner at consulting firm NEPC and a former investor for Wellesley College. Some investors don’t have “a ton of confidence that they should continue committing to private markets at the same pace.”


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Barron's: Wall Street Is Marketing Private Equity Investments. The Rich Are the Targeted Buyers.

NEPC’s Sarah Samuels was recently quoted in Barron’s, exploring the growing push to open private markets to individual investors through semiliquid and evergreen funds. Visit Barron’s to read the full piece and hear Sarah’s perspective on the opportunities — and risks — for private-wealth investors in this evolving space, or read the excerpts below.

 

As pension funds, sovereign-wealth funds, endowments, and other institutional investors pare private-equity stakes to generate cash and rebalance their portfolios, Wall Street has gone looking for new buyers: retail investors who have long been shut out of private markets.