Chart of the Week: Silver Lake Partners III Tops All Mega Funds of 2006, 2007 With 19.7% IRR

Apollo Investment Fund VI and VII performed well with Fund VII posting an IRR of 10.68 percent at the end of 2011. Fund VI generated a 7.9 percent IRR at the end of March, according to Buyouts’s fund performance database. Two of the 15 mega funds from the period have negative IRR. JC Flowers II generated the lowest rate at negative 25.1 percent for Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, as of March 31.