Evidence for the Atlas Approach
General Alternate Investing
Alternative Investments Reality Check Series – Are Alternative Investments Helping Endowment Returns (Frier – March 2025)
In this video, our CIO Ken Frier examines the data from the NACUBO survey and reveals why most investors would have been better off with a simple, low-cost stock and bond portfolio.
Have Alternative Investments Helped Investment Outcomes (Frier – March 2024)
In this video, our CIO Ken Frier explains how increasing allocations to alternative investments has not delivered the higher returns investors expected.
Alternatives in 2024 (Preqin – December 2023)
Extensive information regarding alternative investing.
Initial Public Offerings: Updated Statistics (Ritter – May 2024)
IPO statistics by year since 1980 for VC-backed and Buyout-backed firms and data regarding the recent falloff in IPOs.
A Deep Dive into Private Fund Performance (Medhat – July 2024)
Private equity and Venture Capital returns show no material advantage relative to public small cap investing.
Private credit has slightly underperformed public high yield bonds.
Private real estate has substantially underperformed REITS.