U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine firms raised an estimated year-to-date amount of $188.8 billion through November 25. That figure is up from $142.2 billion at this time a year ago and is almost guaranteed to go beyond 2013’s total of $190.8 billion by the year end.
Summit Partners, the Boston-based growth equity shop, has produced the top-performing fund, measured by IRR, for backer California State Teachers’ Retirement System—quite an accomplishment consider the pension fund has backed nearly 300 funds since the late 1980s.
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine firms raised an estimated year-to-date amount of $180.9 billion through November 14. That figure is up from $133.6 billion at this time a year ago.
Buyout firms continue to raise capital at a solid if not record pace following a couple of bleak years in the wake of the financial crisis, while venture capital firms are finally showing life as institutional investors tip-toe back into the asset class following nearly a decade of poor returns from vintages 1998 to 2006.
U.S. buyout firms overwhelm venture capital, real estate in assets under management
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine firms raised an estimated year-to-date amount of $157.9 billion through October 31. That figure is up from $129.6 billion at this time a year ago.
Much goes into the decision investors make when figuring out where to place their money, but none is more paramount than the potential cash-on-cash return of their investments. In our latest scorecard, we take a look at the Washington State Investment Board portfolio and rank funds by cash-on-cash return as of March 31. The top ten results are presented in the accompanying table.
Unrealized gains are all fine and well but when it comes to brass tacks what investors really care about is the cash-on-cash return of their investments. In this edition’s scorecard we rank funds in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System portfolio by cash-on-cash return as of March 31 and present the results in the accompanying […]
Unrealized gains are all fine and well but when it comes to brass tacks what investors really care about is the cash-on-cash return of their investments.
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine firms raised an estimated $145.7 billion through the first nine months of the year, up from $123.1 billion at this time last year.