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Chart of the Week: State pension allocations to alternative assets, fiscal 2013

The typical alternative asset portfolio at state pension systems includes private equity, real estate, hedge funds and real assets.

Carlyle LPs to share in collusion suit settlement costs

The Carlyle Group’s $115 million settlement of a lawsuit that alleged that it colluded with other buyout shops to depress deal prices will be paid through a combination of Carlyle Partners IV fund capital, insurance, balance sheet capital, and contributions from some employees of the firm, an industry source told Buyouts.

Chart of the Week: 10-year PE returns for public pension systems

Through June 30, 2013, the top public pension system with the highest 10-year returns from private equity investments has been the Teacher Retirement System of Texas with 18.2 percent.

MARKET AT A GLANCE

Buyout and mezzanine funds based in the United States have raised $136.3 billion in capital commitments from institutional investors through Aug. 5. Overall fundraising continues to outpace the amount raised this time last year, when buyout and mezzanine funds managed to collect $100.5 billion in commitments.

Chart of the Week: Financial services led pack in PE returns in final quarter of year

All eight key buyout sectors tracked by Cambridge Associates posted strong positive returns in the last quarter of 2013.

Chart of the Week: Healthcare is biggest market for PE-backed M&A exits so far in 2014

Through Aug. 14 there have been 363 M&A exits by U.S.-based private equity sponsors this year, totaling almost $65 billion in disclosed value.

Chart of the Week: H1 2014 PE-backed M&A exits by industry

Of the 295 M&A exits completed by U.S.-based financial sponsors in the first half, the largest portion belonged to the high technology industry with 46.

Chart of the Week: Ten largest PE-backed M&A exits in H1 2014

In the first half of 2014, 295 M&A exits were completed by U.S.-based financial sponsors, with a total disclosed value of more than $52 billion.

Chart of the Week: Annual default rate for portfolio companies of top 14 PE firms

There is a wide variety of default rates among private equity-backed portfolio companies.

Chart of the Week: Which sectors take the longest/shortest to exit from?

So far in 2014, of the 194 buyout M&A exits by U.S.-based financial sponsors that Thomson One identified, portfolio companies in the utilities sector are the quickest to reach an exit, in 3.7 years on average.