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HAMILTON LANE'S 2022 MARKET OVERVIEW: PRIVATE MARKETS REPORT STRONG PERFORMANCE; ROBUST FUNDRAISING MARKET; AND EXPANDING INVESTOR BASE
-Private market assets continued to outperform public markets in 2021, with pooled average buyout returns outperforming the MSCI World PME in each of the past
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[{"type":"text","content":"-Private market assets continued to outperform public markets in 2021, with pooled average buyout returns outperforming the MSCI World PME in each of the past 20 vintage years and by an average of more than 1,000 basis points\n -Fundraising marked a historical high, with an estimate that just 15 buyout managers may collectively raise upwards of $300 billion in 2022\n -Access to the asset class continues to expand; report finds that a 1% increase in the capital high-net-worth individuals invest would lead to a 10% increase in the size of the private markets\n\n\nCONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE), a leading private markets investment management firm, published its 2022 Market Overview today.\nThe report is a comprehensive, data-driven review and analysis of private markets industry activity in 2021 as well as predictions for 2022, underscored by Hamilton Lane's industry-leading database encompassing $15+ trillion in assets, 50 vintage years and 45,000 funds. \nThe report arrives at a time of major global market shifts, with inflation sharply increasing, interest rates on the rise and growing volatility in the public markets. Against this backdrop, both institutional and private wealth investors around the world are reexamining their portfolio composition in search of longer-term return potential.\n\"The global financial markets continue along a trend of rapid change that we've experienced during the last two years of the pandemic,\" said Mario Giannini, CEO of Hamilton Lane. \"This year's Market Overview demonstrates the value of private markets to-date during such an environment - particularly compared to public markets. We're examining what's driven outperformance of late, what factors are disrupting and transforming the private markets, as well as what the investor experience could be going forward – particularly as the asset class continues to expand its investor base into the private wealth market.\"\nPrivate Markets Continue to Outperform Public Markets\n2021 saw private equity's continued outperformance of public equity, generating an extra 83 cents per dollar invested since 2017. Private real estate and credit, with significantly lower risk profiles than equity strategies, have also done remarkably well in this environment. \n\nIn a longer-term picture of private equity's perform...