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Chart of the Week: New York is the place to raise a buyout fund

Over the past five years, 517 buyout funds have been raised by U.S.-based firms, according to Thomson One, a product of Thomson Reuters.

Chart of the Week: High technology leads the way in Q1 M&A exits

The largest sector represented in Q1 2014 M&A exits was high technology, with 19 percent of the total, or 23 transactions.

Chart of the Week: ?First quarter strong for buyout M&A exits

The first quarter of 2014 finished strong with 119 M&A exits by U.S.-based buyout firms, resulting in $22.46 billion of deal volume.

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Chart of the week: PE lags in one-year, three-year returns for public pension funds: PEGCC

For public pension funds, private equity firms significantly outperformed the S&P 500 as of Sept. 30, 2013, over the long haul, but they are underperforming in the short term, according to data from Private Equity Growth Capital Council.

Number of wobbly portfolio companies holds steady

Twenty four portfolio companies backed by financial sponsors around the world made it on the Standard & Poor’s ‘weakest links’ list last month, the same number as the last list reviewed in November, according to Buyouts estimates. At the same time, the number of portfolio companies defaulting or filing for bankruptcy protection has remained depressed so far this year.

Chart of the Week: NYSTRS goes for buyouts

According to a report that summarizes its private equity program activity, the New York State Teachers Retirement System overwhelmingly prefers buyouts for its private equity portfolio as of the quarter that ended Sept. 20, 2013.

M&A exits remain strong as PE-backed IPOs fall

U.S.-based financial sponsors kept up a strong pace of exiting via M&A during the first three months of the new year. But buyout-backed IPOs fell sharply in the first quarter as public equity markets cooled.

Onex to sell The Warranty Group to TPG Capital for $1.5 bln

Canadian private equity investment firm Onex Corp said it would sell The Warranty Group, a provider of extended warranty contracts, to an affiliate of TPG Capital for an enterprise value of about $1.5 billion.

Deal of the Year, International/Overall, 2014: Riverside

The Riverside Company has a definite type of deal that it likes. And back in 2009, the lower-mid-market buyout shop took a shine to Capol GmbH, whose polishing and anti-sticking agents are used to make such products as jellybeans, gummy bears and aspirin.