HIG Capital IV, a 2006 vintage buyout fund that raised $750 million, holds the top spot of the University of California’s buyout-related vehicles, according to data released for year-end 2012 by the university. Not faring so well from that vintage year is J.C. Flowers II LP, which comes at the bottom of the list of buyout performers.
A lot of money has poured into emerging manager portfolios over the last decade.
KPS II, a 2002 vintage turnaround fund, is the $9.2 billion Connecticut State Employees Retirement System’s top performer as of Dec. 31, 2012. That fund posted an IRR and multiple of 63.6 percent and 3.5x.
Want to find out the latest private equity return data from the most prominent US state pension funds? Buyouts has been compiling a database of the most recent state pension fund private equity return data that is available. The database currently comprises private equity fund performance and information from some 28 pension funds, including more than 1,500 2007 vintage and older funds with more than 500 domestic buyout funds and more than 400 domestic venture capital funds in that dataset. Most of the data are as of Dec. 31, 2012.
A 1996 vintage energy-focused fund is the top performer for the $12 billion Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho as of December 31, 2012. The analysis ranks the top five and bottom five performers of 2012 looking at vintages from 2010 and older. Secondaries funds were not included in the research for this scorecard.
Technology-related buyouts, distressed deals and European buyouts are bringing in the top dollars for the $255 billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System as of Dec. 31, 2012.
Technology-related buyouts, distressed deals and European buyouts are bringing in the top dollars for the $255 billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System as of Dec. 31, 2012. The 2001 vintage T3 Partners II comes in pole position in this rundown of CalPERS’s top and bottom buyout-related vehicles, posting an IRR of 95.1 percent and multiple of 3.2x […]
The number of portfolio companies backed by sponsors on Standard & Poor’s ‘Weakest Links’ list released last month fell to 14, down from twenty on the list published in March, according to Buyouts estimates. Simultaneously, there has been a slight up-tick in the number of portfolio companies defaulting or filing for bankruptcy protection year to date.
A 1996 vintage media and communications fund from Providence Equity Partners is tops among buyout funds backed by the Oregon Investment Council, according to performance data as of year-end. A 2006 vintage financial-services fund managed by J.C. Flowers & Co. brings up the rear.
Washington State Investment Board is probably wishing it had committed a little more money to vintage 2001 buyout funds, a little less to vintage 2007.