Lieberman: Hot markets compress price spreads between great and average assets
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Jeff Lieberman, Managing Director at Insight Partners, discusses how asset quality and pricing dynamics shift during inflated market cycles.
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“I think in times like this, we typically average assets get priced way up. Great assets get priced up, but the spread between those assets Probably compresses.”
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