# Professor Gustavo Schwed comments on the recent ​performance of private equity funds

1 Faculty News November 20, 2015 ![Institutional Investor logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032206.jpg?itok=XtTdDJtV)>

Excerpt from [Institutional Investor](http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/3508176/asset-management-hedge-funds-and-alternatives/private-equity-seen-pausing-but-not-slumping.html?ArticleId=3508176) -- "'For any long period of time, private equity has dramatically outperformed public markets,' [Schwed](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/gustavo-schwed) says. 'But not in the years after the 2008 financial crisis.'"

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