Mohamed El-Erian says Russia's war is pushing investors into private markets as they look to boost returns and limit risks

– Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is speeding up a shift into private markets, according to Mohamed El-Erian. – The threat of financial tightening, inflation fears, and geopolitical tensions risk uncertainty, he wrote in a Bloomberg op-ed. – Increasing demand for private markets will have to be met with better investment offerings, the economist said. Mohamed El-Erian believes geopolitical uncertainty arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is accelerating an investor shift from public markets into private markets. In a Bloomberg op-ed published Thursday, the top economist wrote about how this transition was already building up before the war due to other…