Can private markets live up to Mansion House hype?

Hamilton Lane’s Ben Edwards looks at whether private equity is a good investment

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Hamilton Lane partner Ben Edwards

The chancellor’s Mansion House reforms, announced in July and reinforced in the Autumn Statement have provoked debate in the industry.

  The reforms and guidance aim to increase investment in private markets, but have led to accusations that the government has ‘drunk the Kool-Aid' on what is seen as a riskier expensive asset cl...

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