Chart of the week: Look for nearly $250 billion to be raised this year by U.S. firms

For the past four years the H1 fundraising totals average 46.8 percent of what turn out to be the yearly tallies. Using that same formula, the year-end fundraising total for U.S. sponsors of buyout and mezzanine funds projects to shoot far past last year’s healthy total and flirt with the $250 billion mark. 2015 has been a strong year in fundraising and there are no signs of it slowing down, given the record levels of distributions driving the demand from institutional investors and plenty of funds to put their money in.

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