The latest research from eFront shows that reaching the hurdle rate – traditionally set at 8 per cent – remains a significant challenge for venture capital funds and, to a lesser extent, LBO funds. Looking at the distribution of historical internal rates of return (IRRs) delivered by LBO and VC
Venture capital funds globally reached their best post-2009 crisis period performance in Q4 2018, surpassing the previous best recorded one year earlier, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report. Performance of VC funds globally reached 1.531x in Q4 2018 – the highest level on record – before dipping
New research has revealed that M&A activity in the marketing sector in the first half of 2019 was largely driven by private equity (PE) investment, with many of the traditional network acquirers absent from the list of most active buyers. There were 91 private equity deals in Q2, bringing the
Although the macroeconomic picture for Europe has been muted in the past 24 months, the continent’s alternatives industry is moving from strength to strength, according to Preqin’s second annual Alternatives in Europe report in published in partnership with Amundi. 2018 has seen record activity across most alternative asset classes, with
According to the first estimates obtained by Spanish private capital trade body ASCRI through the European platform EDC, the volume of private capital investment in Spain during the first half of 2019 reached EUR4.06 billion in 328 deals. During the period, nine megadeals (transactions of more than EUR100 million) were
Global private equity activity decreased by 1.8 per cent year-on-year to USD550.6 billion in transactions, according to Bloomberg’s final Q2 2019 league table reports, which represent market leaders across a broad range of deal types, including M&A, Equities, loans and bonds transactions over the last quarter. However, the United States continued to be
CEPRES presents the world’s largest ever analysis of LP Co-Investments based on 4,659 Co-Investments, as an update to the 2018 report. Read all of the findings here.
The ability to predict and shape the long term success of global takeovers is often seen as the ‘holy grail’ for CEOs, investors and their advisors, and a new report from chartered accountancy body ICAEW and Drooms reveals that some key decision making may soon be taken away from humans
Research carried out by Guernsey Finance has revealed rising interest in green investment from private equity managers, but it also flags that they underestimate the funding requirements and commercial opportunity for limiting global warming. Three-quarters of those surveyed had increased exposure in green and sustainable finance and everyone planned to
There is evidence that the previously sacrosanct 8 per cent hurdle rate may be under challenge, according to the latest edition of MJ Hudson’s Private Equity Fund Terms Research, with 23 per cent of funds this year having (at least initially) dropped the hurdle altogether, an increase on the numbers
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