Chart of the week: How notable fund families stack up

In the private equity investing world, the major measuring stick of success remains the IRR that a fund generates. Buyouts this year compiled performance data from over 30 limited partners and looked at the IRRs generated by members of the big-name fund families. While funds managed by Thomas H. Lee produced the highest top-quartile IRR of 37.1 percent, those managed by Hellman & Friedman displayed the strongest IRRs overall. Its bottom quartile IRR of 22.5 percent bested almost all the other fund families’ median IRRs.

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