Wall Street Math Wizards Are Decoding Private-Market Returns
Times are tough in private markets. High borrowing costs are hurting returns, managers are struggling to exit investments.
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The Magnificent Seven (Microsoft, Apple, NVDIA, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Tesla) and their respective growth have been a collective lightning rod for the financial press, with each of these stocks leading the broader market up and down at various points in time. We quantified the impact of the Magnificent Seven over the past 1-, 3- and 5-years by comparing the results of the Syntax US Large Cap 500 Index (Syntax 500)1 to what we refer to as the Syntax 493, an index model which excludes these seven companies.