These 10 distressed companies have a combined affected debt of $14.9 billion, with the notable addition to this quarter’s list of SandRidge Energy Inc, which has an affected debt of $5 billion on its own. Overall, 28 companies owned by buyout shops around the world made the list in September, the highest number of portfolio companies on the […]
The pre-vintage 2011 private equity portfolio of Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, consisting of some 77 active funds, had generated a median IRR of 10.0 percent as of year-end. As shown in the accompanying table the top five by IRR are almost exclusively buyout funds, while the bottom five includes more of a mix of fund strategies, including both buyout and venture capital.
In the latest performance summary from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, we get an inside look at the performance of its investment pools by strategy. The results show private equity with comparable returns to other asset classes in the near term, but superior returns starting in the 5-year window, 10-year and 20-year windows.
In the private equity investing world, the major measuring stick of success remains the IRR that a fund generates. Buyouts this year compiled performance data from over 30 limited partners and looked at the IRRs generated by members of the big-name fund families. While funds managed by Thomas H. Lee produced the highest top-quartile IRR of 37.1 percent, those managed by Hellman & Friedman displayed the strongest IRRs overall. Its bottom quartile IRR of 22.5 percent bested almost all the other fund families’ median IRRs.
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine fundraising had another vigorous two weeks. Since Buyouts last went to press, the 2015 total grew by nearly $5 billion and the 2015 total is now over $154 billion, some $10 billion more than at this time in 2014.
Commonfund Capital, a manager of funds of funds on behalf of endowments, foundations and other big investors since 1988, has been an influential limited partner, with more than $14.6 billion in private capital under management. Buyouts for the first time has found a cache of performance data for the firm, and the early results on several of their vintage-2007 and younger funds are mixed.
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine fundraising ramped back up since the last issue of Buyouts. The year-to-date total grew by about $6 billion since we last went to press, and it now stands at $149.3 billion. The yearly aggregate is a full $13 billion ahead of where it was at this time in 2014.
As with median IRR, New Mexico Educational Retirement Board, Indiana Public Retirement System and Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management lead the way with average IRRs of 18.12 percent, 15.01 percent and 14.57 percent, respectively. In fourth place is Regents of the University of California, at 13.37 percent, followed by the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Nevada, at 13.17 percent. All told Buyouts maintains performance records, including on buyout, venture capital and related funds, for 35 limited partners.
Hispania Private Equity II led the way in IRR increase by percentage points over a recent one-year period (typically calendar year 2014), according to a database of 2010-vintage fund and older buyout and related funds. Buyouts Insider keeps a continuous record of private equity performance from some of the biggest LPs in the country. The table below shows the top 10 by percentage point gain of the nearly 1,500 funds were analyzed.
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine fundraising seemingly went on a summer vacation since the last issue of Buyouts. The 2015 total now stands at $143.4 billion, having grown by $3.4 billion since we last went to press. Fundraising is tracking $15 billion ahead of last year.