Research & Rankings

How does your firm compare when it comes to how much you spend on compensation vs. revenues? According to this year’s 2016-2017 Holt-MM&K-Buyouts Insider North American PE/VC Compensation Report, buyout and growth equity firms allocate well over half (58 percent) of their revenue to payroll.

European private equity and venture capital funds produced strong returns for members of the Institutional Limited Partnership Association across all time periods. The highest IRR on the board, however, belongs to North American VC, with 18.91 at the 3-year mark. Given the distress in the industry, natural-resource funds are putting up a poor showing.

GPs are required to invest their own money into the funds they manage to qualify for long-term capital gain tax treatment. Limited partners prefer GPs to have “skin in the game”, because it shows a mutual commitment to success. However, that amount invested varies from firm-to-firm and sector-to-sector. The most common allocation is 2 percent […]

Buyouts, in partnership with Holt Private Equity Consultants and MM&K Ltd conducted its annual Compensation Report. The findings revealed the average time it takes advancing from an MBA degree (or its equivalent in experience) to a partner/managing director is 10.8 years, with the median being 10 years. Over 100 organizations were surveyed.

Middle-market buyout funds are better investments than their bulkier counterparts, according to Cambridge Associates. The average IRR for above-median middle-market vehicles outperform large-market in the five- and 10-year outlooks.

For limited partners, distributions from global buyout firms outpaced draw-downs by nearly $170 million in 20152014, a little less than the nearly $183 million differential the year before, according to PitchBook.

Advent International has the most ambitious target among U.S. buyout and mezzanine firms, seeking $12 billion for its eighth global private equity fund. Altogether, Buyouts counted 289 private equity funds currently in the market. Behind Advent are mega-funds from the usual suspects, including Blackstone Group, KKR and TPG Capital.

Private equity fundraising has been on the upswing, growing just about every year since the Great Recession. Based on the number of open funds and the targets yet to be reached, 2016 could easily exceed the heights achieved last year.

Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Trust Fund has the highest annualized 10-year private equity return among public pension funds, with 17.93 percent, according data collected by Bison for the Private Equity Growth Capital Council. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System led the way in overall capital invested in the PE marketplace with $31.5 billion — headlining a West Coast-heavy […]

Here are the key statistics in private equity fundraising, deals and exits for the fourth quarter of 2015. Download the “Buyouts Insider Q4 2015 Highlights” slide show as a PowerPoint: Buyouts Insider Q4 2015 Highlights