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Going back to 2007, private equity funds are seeing an increase in their prosperity, with more and more going well beyond their goals. During the recession-tinged time frame of 2007-2010, 51 percent of funds closed below or equal to their targets. Over the past three years, 56 percent reached final close at their hard cap […]

Venture capital, growth equity and other alternative-investment vehicles all run at similar splits with their fundraising, with roughly half the funds reaching or coming below their targets. Buyout funds operate inversely to the rest, with only 27 percent reaching or failing to hit their targets, from 2007-2017.

According to Buyouts’ 2018-2019 Partnership Agreements Study, cash funneled in from individual team members is the most common way general partners fund their contributions. While respondents could pick more than one answer, the majority of each asset class landed there, including an overwhelming 94 percent of mezzanine and infrastructure firms.  

The upcoming 2018-2019 Buyouts Partnership Agreements Study shows general partner contributions mostly land in the window of 1.1 to 5 percent. Of the seven asset classes surveyed in the study, six had its majority share covered in that range.

According to Buyouts’ 2018-2019 Partnership Agreements Study, a 20 percent carried-interest rate is the most common across all asset classes. From those surveyed, North American buyout firms have the lowest degree of variance, while funds-of-funds and secondaries can take anywhere from 5 percent to 20 percent in carried interest.

According to the 2017-2018 Holt-MM&K-Buyouts Insider North American PE/VC Compensation Report, the average firm commits 62 percent of its revenue to payroll, with venture coming in the highest at 67 percent. How does your firm compare?

The average payroll for all investment firms is about $10.4 million, based on global data from the 2017-2018 Holt-MM&K-Buyouts Insider PE/VC Compensation Report. Larger shops skew bigger on the payroll scale, and leveraged buyout firms tip the scales the most, averaging more than $11.9 million.

According to this year’s Holt-MM&K-Buyouts Insider Compensation Report, the average person takes about a decade to climb the ladder from an MBA degree (or the equivalent in experience) to partner. The report surveyed more than 100 firms.

Funds targeting infrastructure, private debt and natural resources should see a big influx of capital next year, according to Preqin’s latest Investor Outlook report. Infrastructure is by far the most popular area of interest. Of the institutional investors surveyed, 53% said they expect to invest more in infrastructure funds over the next 12 months. On […]

Private equity fundraising has gone up steadily over the past two years, but it may decline next year. A Preqin survey shows that just 35% of LPs plan to commit more to PE in the next 12 months, down from 40% of respondents last year and 43% in 2015. In addition, the number of LPs […]