European private equity performance showed positive returns across all investment horizons for the period ending 31 December 2012 and moved in a positive trajectory in all but the three-year time horizon, compared to June 2012.
According to the Private Equity Performance Index, one year returns, which are most affected by the current market environment, moved in a positive direction registering a 4.23 percentage point increase from June 2012 for venture capital funds (11.12 per cent), and an 11.6 percentage point increase for buyout funds (16.1 per cent).
Buyout funds saw returns across all investment horizons hold positive. In the buyouts category, small, medium and large buyout funds in the one-year and 20-year time horizon showed double-digit performance figures.
The “all private equity” returns outperformed the FTSE 100 in the one, ten and twenty-year time horizons, for the period ending December 31, 2012. Compared to the Stoxx 600 Index, the “all private equity” returns outperformed the public markets across all but the one-year time horizon.
The Private Equity Performance Index is based on the latest quarterly statistics from Thomson Reuters private Equity Performance Database analysing the cash flows and returns for over 1,533 European venture capital and private equity partnerships with a capitalisation of USD500.9bn.
