PE Fund Performance Insights: Prequin

Prequin.com‘s October report compares the performance of private equity with major public equity indices and analyzes the returns received from various PE fund types over different time horizons as of Q1, 2013. The report also compares the results from private equity fund type indices with that of the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX). Horizon IRRs The chart above shows buyout firms were the best performing fund type across all horizons. On the other hand, venture capital firms were at the bottom of the table across all time frames. All fund types showed the poorest returns in the five-year horizon – returns were…