Private Equity: Can ETFs Capture This Final Frontier?

The video discusses the decline in public companies and its implications for ETFs, highlighting the shift of companies like Uber and Airbnb to private equity. It compares private equity with public stocks, emphasizing the role of liquidity in returns. The challenges of synthetic funds in capturing liquidity premiums are explored, along with the growing trend of active vs. passive strategies in private equity, including factor investing.

What has been the trend in the number of public companies over the last 25 years?

How do small cap value stocks relate to private equity according to Larry Swedroe?

What is the primary reason private equity and venture capital are expected to earn higher returns than public stocks?

What challenges do investors face when trying to synthetically replicate private equity returns?

In what ways is indexing or factor investing beginning to infiltrate the private equity world?