Research

This week, Buyouts takes a look at University of Texas Investment Management Co.’s top and bottom five performing first time fund managers. UTIMCO is invested in some 17 first time fund managers out of 267 private equity related vehicles in its active portfolio, as of February 28, 2013. Vintages span from 1988 to 2013. 

This week, Buyouts takes a look at University of Texas Investment Management Co.’s top and bottom five performing first time fund managers. UTIMCO is invested in some 17 first time fund managers out of 267 private equity related vehicles in its active portfolio, as of February 28, 2013. Vintages span from 1988 to 2013. The […]

This week Buyouts takes a look at the top and bottom five performing Asia-focused funds in the private equity portfolio of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System as of September 30, 2012. This does not include country-specific funds such as those funds dedicated exclusively to China, India or Japan.

In this scorecard, Buyouts takes a look at the top and bottom five performing small buyout vehicles within Washington State Investment Board’s private equity portfolio, according to its most recent performance data as of September 30, 2012.

Europe leads the way in Washington State Investment Board’s mezzanine commitments, according to its most recent performance data as of September 30, 2012. The state pension fund has committed to 11 mezzanine funds with vintages ranging from 1985 to 1999.

The Oregon Investment Council, which runs the approximately $60 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund is invested in some 37 debt-related investment vehicles including, distressed debt, mezzanine and special situations funds.

New York City Police Pension Fund had a bumper year of commitments in 2006 investing in some 25 private equity vehicles (not including secondary funds)—its largest vintage year of commitments by number. Here we include the top ten buyouts funds it committed to that year (excluding secondary vehicles) and compare the results to the median, top and bottom quartile multiples and IRRs for the entire New York City Police Pension Fund portfolio, as of June 30, 2012.

Advent International takes the first and fourth spots of the $165.8 billion Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board’s top ten largest private equity fund managers performance rankings by multiple as of September 30, 2012.

The usual mid-market suspect comes top of this week’s scorecard looking at the top performers of the $49 billion Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board private equity portfolio as of September 30, 2012. The scorecard also highlights the bottom five performers of this sub-set, which interestingly also includes this week’s top performer.