medium · CFA Level I alts
Northline Timber's private equity consultant notes that 'backfill bias' is affecting their benchmark data. This bias most likely results in:
- An overstatement of historical index returns.
- An increase in the reported liquidation frequency of funds in the index.
- A downward slope in the J-curve of the benchmark.
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