PE returns at near record levels

The proportion of investors reporting net annual returns of over 16% across the lifetime of their private equity portfolios has reached near-record levels, according to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer.

Some 42% of Limited Partners (LPs) now have portfolio-lifetime annual returns of over 16% net. This number has been exceeded only once since the Barometer was first published in 2004: in the Barometer of Summer 2007 in the run-up to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). READ MORE