2007 Investment Benchmarks Reports: European Private Equity
European Private Equity gives the private equity industry and its investors definitive investment performance results on funds focused on investing in Europe, formed between 1980 and 2005.
This latest edition provides the most unique and detailed performance data available:
- Aggregate statistics for over 1060 European private equity funds, representing over € 161 billion in capitalization.
- Comprehensive performance or rates of return analysis - both final and interim - for venture capital, buyout, mezzanine, and other non-venture capital investment vehicles
- Performance statistics provided by vintage year (year of fund formation) and composite portfolio (multiple vintage years), analyzed by stage, fund size and sequence.
- More than 345 tables, charts and graphs to complement the analysis
European Private Equity comprises eight chapters and an appendix.
- Chapter I: Introduction & Executive Summary summarises key results of the study of 31 December 2005 results
- Chapter II: User’s Guide and Methodology provides a guide to using the report and discusses analysis methodology in detail
- Chapter III: Vintage Year Results provides statistics by “vintage year” or cohort group of funds formed in the same year
- Chapter IV: Composite Analysis provides analysis of the performance groups of funds formed over a period of years rather than being limited to a single vintage year; this allows investors to compare performance of their portfolios with performance of a composite cohort group of funds formed over the same time periods
- Chapter V: Top Performers analyzes the results of the top performing funds in the benchmarks
- Chapter VI: Comparisons with the United States provides results for comparison of the United States private equity industry
- Chapter VII: Currency Effects analyzes the effects that currency has on the benchmarks by analysing key results in a variety of currencies
- Chapter VIII: Asset Class Comparison analyzes and compares private equity performance to publicly quoted investment results
- Appendix provides a comprehensive explanation of calculation fund performance.
The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association collaborated in the collection of data for this report.
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