Mark Boslet
The Texas County and District Retirement System has stepped up its commitment to venture capital over the past couple of years with a strategy that favors large and mid-sized funds. The LP added 10 funds to its portfolio since the start of 2012, expanding its venture holdings by more than 60 percent, according to a recent […]
Venture is an asset class where choosing correctly pays big dividends. Finding the new hot firm or making a bet on a promising young early stage rainmaker can bump up returns. In this market of great disparities, the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System has played it safe. The money manager increased its venture investing over […]
The Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management’s venture portfolio includes top name funds from Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital and Index Ventures, but after stepping on the gas early this decade, the board’s pace of commitments shifted to a lower gear last year. MassPRIM has been rewarded for a steady exposure to the asset class with […]
Growth fund performance at the University of Texas Investment Management Company ticked higher early this year. However, Asian investments in the private equity portfolio still have yet to prove themselves. Funds focused on the United States and the “rest of world” remain the strongest performers, claiming the top four spots in the portfolio. At the […]
The University of Texas Investment Management Company’s venture portfolio includes bets on recent funds from Union Square Ventures, IA Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, Cendana Capital and now Techstars and Pinto Technology Ventures. Many of these funds are still too young to get a solid gauge of their eventual performance. But a good number have […]
The University of Texas Investment Management Company’s bet on young, emerging venture firms over the past decade or so, including Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital and Foundry Group, continues to pay off. Funds from Union Square and Spark showed strong gains in UTIMCO’s most recent portfolio report and led the money manager’s collection of mid-decade […]
Last year saw several top performing funds in the University of California’s recent-vintage venture portfolio consolidate performance gains, as others continue to advanced. These relatively young funds—from 2007 to 2013—improved during first nine months of the year. Several stood out for their progress, including funds from BlueRun Ventures, Claremont Creek Ventures, OrbiMed Advisors and Insight […]
A maturing slice of the University of California’s venture portfolio is benefiting from the venture industry’s performance gains of the past year. The majority of the 20 funds the university holds with vintages of 2003 to 2006 advanced smartly in 2013 and 17 now have positive IRRs. Only three don’t. That’s noticeably a better performance than in […]
It is little surprise that funds from Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital top the list of the best performing venture investments at the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board. Battery Ventures and Insight Venture Partners also are well represented. Less expected are which funds made the greatest progress over the past year in MassPRIM’s […]
Institutional Venture Partners and Landmark Partners hold the top positions in the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System’s mid-decade venture portfolio. But funds from Weston Presidio, Technology Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures were the most improved through the middle of last year, according to the most recent SFERS portfolio report. The portfolio, with 21 funds vintage […]