2008 Investment Benchmarks Reports: Venture Capital
The Venture Capital report delivers comprehensive performance information and analysis on venture capital partnerships formed between 1969, 2004 and 2007 - representing $US200 billion in capitalization.
The 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 420 tables, charts and graphs to complement the analysis
The Venture Capital report comprises ten chapters and a four-section appendix.
- Chapter I: Introduction & Executive Summary.
- Chapter II: User’s Guide/Methodology - provides a guide to using the report and discusses report methodology in detail.
- Chapter III: Vintage Year Analysis - the most extensively used and consequently the most comprehensive chapter in the book. This chapter analyzes the performance of the funds formed from 1969 to 2007 by “vintage year” or year of fund formation. This represents the heart of the book and provides the benchmarks necessary to compare individual fund performance.
- Chapter IV: Liquidated Funds - analyzes the performance of liquidated funds formed from 1969 to 2007.
- Chapter V: Top Performers - analyzes the returns to funds in the first quartile of their respective years.
- Chapter VI: Analysis by Characteristic - analyzes returns to funds by stage, focus, fund size and sequence of fund. It also analyzes fund takedown and cash flow scheduling by stage focus, size and sequence.
- Chapter VII: The Young Funds - provides preliminary performance benchmarks to funds formed from 2002 to 2007.
- Chapter VIII: Composite Analysis - analysis on aggregate industry performance for the entire industry as well as for composite portfolios of funds formed between 1969 and 2007.
- Chapter IX: Asset Class Comparison and Correlation Analysis - analysis of correlation statistics and performance information key to performing asset allocation and portfolio optimization modelling. It also discusses problems in applying traditional optimization techniques to private equity.
- Chapter X: Performance by Industry - shows performance of funds by another characteristic: the industry they invest in. It analyzes funds that have invested at least 60 percent of their capital in a particular industry.
- Appendices - include a comprehensive explanation of calculating fund performance with IRR calculations, a Glossary of Terms, industry reference statistics, and Thomson Reuters policy on data collection and compilation.
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