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From a market share point of view, the healthcare industry was the largest sector for M&A exits by U.S.-based private equity firms with $13.3 billion (39 percent).

Buyout and mezzanine funds based in the United States have raised $100.5 billion in capital commitments from institutional investor year-to-date in 2013. Overall fundraising remains behind last year’s pace, when buyout funds managed to collect $120.2 billion in commitments.

So far in 2013, M&A exits by U.S.-based private equity sponsors totaled over $34.5 billion, of which the top ten deals accounted for almost $25.5 billion (62 percent).

For vintages between 1998 and 2008, the best performing fund of funds in the Buyouts returns database was California Asia Investors LP 1, with an IRR of 25.40.

Fundraising by U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine firms has risen to approximately $98.9 billion for the year. The largest contributor in the last three weeks was The Carlyle Group, which raised $4.3 billion in capital commitments for its fund Carlyle Partners VI.

Since 1998, the IRR of the top performing domestic buyout fund for each vintage year tracked by Buyouts has been at least 25 percent.

When examining buyout deals from a value perspective, consumer related portfolio companies receive the most capital with the average value of a deal being over $130 million.

U.S. buyout and mezzanine shops have collectively secured approximately $92 billion so far in 2013. Compared to 2012, this figure is slightly lower than the $105.5 billion raised from investor commitments by this time last year. Among the firms who closed their funds over the past weeks were Generation Growth Capital and Rock Hill Capital Group.

So far in 2013, buyout firms have participated in almost 2,000 deals.

The stigma that used to be associated with using a placement agent to raise a fund, if it ever existed, has largely dissipated.