The Myth of Private Equity | Jeffrey C. Hooke | Talks at Google

Jeff Hooke is the author of several classics including "Security Analysis & Business Valuation on Wall Street" (get the book: goo.gl/FwX3we), and faculty at John Hopkins Carey Business School.
In this talk, he discusses his recent work on the performance, returns and alpha generated by private equity funds. In doing so, he emphasizes the impact of fees, firm size, and liquidity as well as addressing implications for the individual investor.

[@devonzubka3403]

“My background is a little unusual.” As he begins to explain how he started in investment banking and then to private equity after.

[@faisalowimer]

Hilarious

[@edwinbrace4681]

Lol I think he meant the Pro Bono stuff

[@babonnell]

Jjjyyyyyy

[@austincolyer1977]

hahahaha

[@davidec.4021]

Lmaoo

[@maximuswedgie5149]

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[@MarcusFred-wn3iv]

There are a lot of strategies to make tongue-wetting profit that the average joes don't know. . Personally, the financial-market for me seems the only way forward with my long time horizon (accrued roughly $457k in gains since Mid 2021 ) but if you don’t have that fortune of time it’s a tough market out there almost nowhere feels safe!

[@BrunoLuke]

If you’ve got patience I believe it’s a great time to invest… I’m no expert but as Warren buffet said he’s seen this happen a number of times throughout his life

[@MarcusFred-wn3iv]

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[@BrunoLuke]

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[@MarcusFred-wn3iv]

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[@BrunoLuke]

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[@frednuer7819]

classic presentation very easy to understand, thanks for talk

[@RoadMapMarketing]

Excellent, clear and well researched presentation on the myths of private equity - thank you!

[@bc9459]

For him to present this material as clearly, calmly and quickly as he did, it indicates that he knows what he's talking about.

[@ytfeverguy8367]

Excellent talk.

[@freetrailer4poor]

Good presentation.

[@arpitzelawat2094]

Awesome talk... Main thing was that the PE funds are themselves marking to the market of their unsold investments.

[@mattanlurie4362]

except it's not entirely true. All the funds are audited.

[@joshuam2341]

Fantastic speech!

[@adolfhilter]

This is gold, thanks for sharing

[@MrKasnif]

This is my second time watching this video and it never gets old.

[@CommoditiesTrader]

Sample size of 2 doesn't say much for "never"

[@randyreynolds1045]

Very interesting analysis

[@KP-dd2ci]

The law of Supply and demand holds true in every market... be it veiled in mark to model, mark to market or otherwise.

[@blyat7276]

@@seancirilo-marchant2432diminishing marginal benefit my friend, diminishing marginal benefit

[@rickjames21]

Excellent....

[@liuton2005]

"The myth of private property" from Goolag

[@xavierleonard300]

Favorite video on youtube.

[@dimitristsagdis7340]

Confirmed some of my suspicions that few alternatives seem to be beating 60-40 indexing. It would be nice to hear more on that; esp. the free/no agent fee options ;-)

[@rustyeaglemaker6321]

Sources? Think it's cut-off in the presentation. Looking at Cambridge Associates data and very different return profile from what he is showing.

[@eriknuveen4086]

What is the statistical probability of the first quartile achieving it again (repeating success)? Poor. What are the odds of the largest funds achieving success (beating an index fund)? Random.So, why is it that these funds continue to exist? In investing in proprietary companies, one significant success can fund the future of the PE company and the investor’s desired returns. What we need to know is what the average dividend and distribution is of the PE funds to the investors over 10 years. Diversification is often the major cause of earnings paralysis; clipped at the knees by over diversification. The pressure to succeed, the entrance of the more common investor in PE funds and the failure to achieve success beyond the index funds has muted interest by the institutional investor. Knowledge is king. First question to ask a PE fund, “What are your exact carry fees and are they based upon revenue or invested funds values?”

[@constantineandreu9377]

Ever notice with these PE firms🤔 The CEO'S are the ones that always become the billionaires👌they use their clients funds to rake in the dollars and handout to them the cents❤

[@luckymtshali1762]

keeping the diferrence

[@thinkpadoxford2036]

“Option number b” 🤔

[@seandonovan9000]

Thank you google for making these public!

[@ankitacharya5307]

great

[@debraperez7171]

I'm a rube. But just received a money market ad from my bank that was going to pay 2 percent!!! I want to know how to get their 21 plus percent usury credit card returns into MY account. Really!!??

[@Bouje411]

Just listened to him talk about how Asian retail investors are more “whimsical” (it’s a “hot stock”) than US retail investors. yep I knew right then this video was before GameStop and before Covid. Sure enough it was 5 years ago.

[@malgray7396]

Thank you sir great in depth conversation. Private Equity funds look good 2 me. Index funds do they do shorting funds?curious?

[@bigdikdude4207]

Mal Gray as in do index fund short stocks?

[@angelinguraj7284]

"I got into Asia quite a bit" me too sir, me. Too.

[@AlphasPath]

Great talk. I honestly think the average person on a good salary is best off putting his money in a high interest savings account as contrasted to entrusting a PE fund with it. For someone with more time and money on hand, a more active apprach is preferable wherein they are picking investment vehicles with more personal scrutiny.

[@CrimsonLegacy]

For the average person, only for short term savings would I recommend a "high yield" savings account. For the last two decades, the return rate for CDs and Money Market accounts have been laughably low, so low that savers are punished by actually losing money after adjusting for inflation. Only recently have savings accounts started offering higher rates approaching 5%, but it's still not even enough to offset current inflation rates. The only good thing to say about these accounts is that they allow you pull money out in a relatively short time horizon while offering a slightly better return than a simple checking account. For any serious long-term savings, the clear choice is to open an IRA, Roth IRA, or HSA and invest the money in a low-cost index mutual fund or ETF. Turn on recurring contributions and stay the course; do not get scared when the market changes. You'll end up with an average 7-10% return annually and it will entirely or at least mostly tax-free money.

[@nevermind0143]

Savings account with rates right now is pretty good temporarily, but over time would be a disaster compared to equities (sp500 etc).

[@CrimsonLegacy]

@@nevermind0143 agreed 100%

[@iskandera1783]

Link doesn't work to the book....

[@MrDeben98]

I, generally, agree with his overall warnings about the "fuzziness" associated with PE or the exaggeration of the possible future returns. However, I think he's being a bit disingenuous comparing PE returns to the returns of US public equity markets over the past decade. The past decade for the S&P500 or Russell 1000 has far exceeded long-term averages (aka the returns have been anomalous.)

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[@merrickcody1692]

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[@merrickcody1692]

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[@TheGranolaForce]

I legit thought this was bush when I looked at the thumbnail quickly

[@write2yibo]

wow 4 mins in the man had such interesting career path....

[@nvda2damoon]

the tldr version - PE/HF is basically a scam for fees based on survivorship bias.

[@CommoditiesTrader]

When you have to substantiate your worth with a glorious CV for 5 minutes before saying anything should say all you know. Trust me, we all know what Pro Bono means. We all would love to know what you actually did, not where you were at some point in time.

[@rosh70]

I had to pause half-way and comment. Irrespective of whether his data is backed by legit sources or not, the very premise of a PE is shaky (at best) to me. I'm a "risk averse" profile - so, yea - Thank you, but no Thank you. Awesome presentation, though.

[@iwansuwanda-nt9kk]

Welcom Mr hppy morning

[@finalninja22]

I don't get why so many people want to work in PE then when so much of the returns looks like smoke and mirrors, not following any logic

[@JD-pp3ml]

Are you talking about investing in a PE fund or working for a PE firm? PE apparently pays workers really well, from what I've read.

[@sinkay7702]

Because you can very comfortably earn 7 figures in your late 20‘s while having a better W/L Balance than any other high finance role ( AM is not high finance anymore tbh )

[@Traisas]

Not a bad way to live. It seems fun.

[@jessicamoise8454]

There is some private equity successful c.e.o

[@pamircinar6485]

Can someone explain 10:38 to 11:32?

[@alexandergreen5359]

Basically, the more leverage (debt) you use the better your returns will be or worse your losses will be - hence the volatility of PE LBO's. Debt enhances either your wins or your losses, depending on the outcome. Leveraged Buy Outs - LBO's, make use of debt to buy companies; they turn around and sell these companies after paying off the debt for an insane return. Let's say there's a company worth $100MM and I put in $50MM of my own money and $50MM of debt. If I can use the cash flow of that business to pay off the $50MM, I could potentially sell that company for the same price I bought it ($100MM) and make a cash return of $50MM. Picture that, only you sell that company for waaay more than you bought it for. That's essentially what he's getting at.

[@mahirhaque1801]

yall forgot about brookfield asset mgmt

[@shlevings]

there is no way in hell, an investor is going to get an above average return when the fees are 2% plus 20% carry for gains. Warren Buffett made this bet with several fund managers and he won all of this bets.

[@shlevings]

@@Eduardozco hurdle rate is a bullshit term for expected ROI. The expected ROI has absolutely nothing to do with the fee structure.

[@KM-np6pz]

Bro, he challenged hedge fund managers not PE fund managers

[@robdavis0810]

The Cambridge Associates PE Index says otherwise…

[@veronalaurence2306]

My life have been better, since I started investing 4k and now earning over 20k just in 15 days.

[@l.s.754]

I wouldn't trust private equity funds. I would rather put it 90% in index funds and 10% in the high growth disruptor companies.

[@sirus312]

This is the play

[@luckymtshali1762]

a lesson but no action yappie yapiie how to leave exit Aa RATING MOODY BUT looks like a long lecture..lungs inflated with jargon waiting for a conversion.....robotics funds..@10000 margin entry with ema...moving average

[@freetrailer4poor]

No wonder the machines in casinos pay horribly, he took them out so the can pay fees to deadbeat state officals.

[@pandafox12]

It's Un-American if the government doesn't get a piece of the transaction when two peaceful people decide to gamble with each other...

[@Traisas]

Good luck gambling "peacefully" without public services 👮‍♀️

[@althe]

1 in 1024 investors beat the market? Are you sure about that? You may have misplaced a decimal - seems more like 1 in 10,240. But I'm speculating - could easily be 1 in 102,400. Better to invest in yourself, buy Porsches, and travel the world. Those are zero-risk high-return investments.

[@KP-dd2ci]

Are there any non-asians that work at Google?

[@yA-yz9ok]

Ken Powers no we domino everything

[@KP-dd2ci]

@@yA-yz9ok Dominate, not domino, dumb dumb.

[@xaxamlac4363]

No. problem?

[@VAMedia-mv8go]

as interesting as this is, this guy's boring.

[@JulianKong]

This is a terrible presentation. He doesn't know public speaking for crap.

[@KP-dd2ci]

How would you improve upon it...presuming you must know a lot about public speaking.

[@xaxamlac4363]

chutiya you know nothing

[@ranjithpowell6791]

Why is world bank doing private equity?

[@iceyred6668]

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