2008 Investment Benchmarks Reports: European Private Equity
This definitive report delivers comprehensive information and analysis on venture capital partnerships formed between 1980 and 2007 - representing more than €290 billion in capitalization.
This report is one of a kind, and is the only place to find:
- Aggregate statistics from a database of over 1,200 partnerships
- Performance statistics by vintage year, by composite portfolio and by time horizons - analyzed by stage, fund size and sequence
- More than 340 tables, charts and graphs to complement the analysis
About the Investment Benchmarks Reports (IBRs)
The Investment Benchmarks Reports (IBRs) are the most comprehensive, insightful and authoritative reports in the industry, containing aggregate statistics from more than a thousand private equity funds and analyzed by Thomson Reuters’ leading researchers. For more than a decade, industry professionals have been using IBRs to benchmark their fund’s performance against those within their vintage years.
Whether you’re fundraising, comparing fund performance or conducting industry research, you need the Investment Benchmarks Reports. The latest IBRs are more detailed than ever, featuring careful, objective analysis, year-over-year performance information, unparalleled breadth and depth coverage, hundreds of explanatory tables, charts and graphs plus invaluable insight from accomplished industry veterans.
European Private Equity comprises seven chapters and an appendix
- Chapter I: Introduction and Executive Summary
- Chapter II: User’s Guide and Methodology - Provides a guide to using the report, discusses the limitations and scope of the report, highlights of the benefits for users by type of user, and most importantly, the methodology used to calculate the statistics in the body of the report.
- Chapter III: Vintage Year Results - Contains three parts. The first part of this chapter is an analysis of the IBR data set included in the report. This includes the data set of funds by stage focus, fund size, sequence, captive status, fund domicile, and fund country focus. The second part of the chapter summarizes the cumulative year-end 2007 results for all funds formed between 1980 and 2007 and includes summary charts and graphs. The final portion of this chapter provides a summary of each vintage year in separate profiles. Each vintage year has comprehensive statistics. Note that funds formed from 1980 to 1984 are grouped together for analysis as one vintage year group due to data set size limitations.
- Chapter IV: Composite Analysis - Provides analysis on aggregate performance for the entire industry as well as for composite portfolios of funds formed between 1980 and 2007 and 1980 and 2001.
- Chapter V: Top Performers - Analyzes results for the upper half and the top quarter for each vintage year and for the overall data set. Chapter VI: Comparisons with the United States - Provides performance statistics for the U.S. private equity industry for comparison purposes.
- Chapter VII: Asset Class Comparison - Discusses the issues that arise in comparing private equity performance with public market performance. Also provides comparisons of private equity performance with other quoted public market indices.
- Appendix: Provides a comprehensive explanation of fund performance calculations.
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