Chart of the Week: North American private equity scores high in ILPA benchmarks

The North American private equity benchmark created by Cambridge Associates for the Institutional Limited Partners Association beat the average internal rate of return achieved by the ‘all funds’ category, both short and long-term, as of June 30. Among the poorer performers, the funds of funds and secondaries categories are seated below the ‘all funds’ average for each benchmark term. The table shows pooled net IRRs for benchmarks based on data from some 3,001 unique funds.

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