by all means, keep letting those charlatans take your money.
Are you denying that private equity avoids reporting standards that are mandated for public companies?
Are you denying that private equity avoids reporting standards that are mandated for public companies?
So do startups and small businesses. I’ve made money in both (as well as hedge funds).
Good investments aren’t measured by consultant spam. I’d be furious if my managers burned my money on e.g. commissioning boiler plate risk factors.
I’ve done a startup. My skin in the game was significant, but I was less dependent on the outcome of the startup than I was keeping my job earlier in my career.
In any case, fraudsters also have lots of skin in the game. This argument is irrelevant to the irrelevance of public reporting requirements, or the empirical track record of private equity for LPs.