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EM funds make record distributionsGPs gave back $5.6bn to investors in Q2, with Asia still driving emerging markets.
Investors look beyond IRR, investment multipleInvestors trying to decide which funds to back are putting more emphasis on realized returns, and deploying new tools to understand just how much sponsors beat or fall short of public equity benchmarks, according to interviews with advisers, sponsors, academics and vendors.
peHUB First ReadThis Tuesday morning find out all about Cambridge Associates being sued over performance calculation; life science companies that are built to last and a new PE fund from LionGold.
- Cambridge Associates sued by rival over performance calculation
Starting with the second-quarter edition of its private equity index and benchmarks report, adviser Cambridge Associates published numbers that let investors compare the performance of private equity with public stock indices over a variety of time periods. Now rival Capital Dynamics says the calculation behind those numbers infringes one of its patents.
Chart of the week: Natural resources leads the way among ILPA performance benchmarksThe Institutional Limited Partners Association, in partnership with Cambridge Associates, has begun releasing its quarterly performance benchmarks based on returns from some 2,650 unique funds.
- Venture capital outperforms private equity in second quarter in Cambridge index
Venture capital outperformed private equity in the second quarter, with the private equity index returning 3 percent, a 1.5 percent drop from the previous quarter, and the venture capital index returning 4.3 percent, an improvement of 1.8 percent from the previous quarter, according to Cambridge Associates. Both private equity and venture capital posted returns that matched or bettered major indices that track the performance of large public companies, Cambridge said.
Venture performance rises solidly in the second quarterImprovements show up in every time period except the 15-year
- Cambridge develops benchmark to assist LPs in gauging performance
Cambridge Associates has developed a benchmarking methodology designed to help institutional investors gauge performance of their private investment partnerships relative to publicly traded investments.
- Study: Asia PE returns improving
Despite waning investor sentiment for the region, Asia's GPs are posting the strongest ever 10-year returns, according to a study from Capital Dynamics.
San Francisco pension system approves alternatives consultantsSan Francisco Employees' Retirement System's retirement board approved hiring Cambridge Associates and TorreyCove Capital Partners as alternative investment consultants, subject to contract negotiations.