Cambridge Associates

Andrea Auerbach, Global Head of Private Investments for Cambridge Associates, discusses the current state of the private equity market, including the surge in distributions back to LPs, and the performance of the largest private equity funds, which is beginning to mirror the average performance of the stock market. Interviewed by David Snow, CEO of Privcap…

IR experts from Cambridge Associates and Sutton Hill on how to plan an effective annual general meeting.

Hate sponsor-to-sponsor transactions? You may love them after learning about new Cambridge research

Experts from Cambridge Associates, Coller Capital, and Guardian Life discuss GPs needing capital for “outside the strike zone” deals, and how LPs need to carefully track whether a co-investment opportunity is within the strike zone of a GP.

Experts from Cambridge Associates, Coller Capital, and Guardian Life explain why co-investments are increasingly popular, how they are performing, and how to be aware of adverse selection.

Experts from Cambridge Associates, Coller Capital, and Guardian Life discuss why there is more variation in fee structures than ever before.

Experts from Cambridge Associates, Coller Capital, and Guardian Life discuss the impact of LP dry powder earmarked for co-investments that’s not included in most PE fundraising data.

Experts from Cambridge Associates, Coller Capital, and Guardian Life discuss why distributions to LPs are at record-high levels.

Experts from Cambridge Associates, Guardian Life, and Coller Capital discuss why institutional investors are allocating to infrastructure, and how a new index is helping define a performance benchmark for investors in the sector.

Returns from value-added and opportunistic real estate funds have been exceptional and could continue through 2018. But a deceleration is in the cards, says an expert PrivcapRE panel.

LPs in value-added and opportunistic RE funds should demand GPs report unlevered returns, a panel of performance experts tells PrivapRE.

GPs are urged to be more realistic about fund returns by changing their target for each successive fundraise, to reflect changing market conditions.

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Should investors use public benchmarks like the S&P 500 to gauge the performance of their private equity program?

How real is VC’s current outperformance, and how long will it last?

Are the synthetic track records of new firms legitimate? Are they worth the due diligence effort by investors?

Experts from Cambridge, PREA and Crossroads delve into benchmarking value-added and opportunistic real estate funds – what works and what doesn’t.

Video on markets primed for investment, how strong offshore appetite for Australian investment is and why the retiring baby boomer generation presents a golden opportunity for PE with Eugene Snyman of Cambridge Associates.

A deep dive into Siguler Guff’s co-investment platform – how co-investing helped the firm add alpha to its overall portfolio.

How to optimize the performance of your fund as a whole by avoiding key mistakes.

Ten years on, what do we know about the average performance of PE funds in the 2004 vintage?

How have emerging markets private equity funds performed on average over the long term? And why is this so?

Which strategy has performed better – mega buyout or small buyout?

Our performance experts tackle the most over-used term in private equity: ‘Top quartile.’

Experts Weigh In: Impact and ESG Strategies – Andrea Auerbach of Cambridge Associates

Despite getting a record $115 billion back from their GPs last year, LPs have been slow to plow that money back into the fundraising market, according to Michael Elio of ILPA and Andrea Auerbach of Cambridge Associates.

What’s the real impact of the private equity overhang, just how big is it, and how worried should investors be? Expert analysis with professionals from ILPA, Cambridge and Independence Capital.

Absolute performance versus top-quartile performance. With Cambridge, ILPA and Zurich.

It’s a tricky but critical categorization to make–how should a fund manager be benchmarked?

Mike Elio of ILPA and Andrea Auerbach of Cambridge Associates explain this new performance benchmark

The year 2006 is one of the most important ever for the buyout industry because so much capital was formed and put to work in a frothy environment. So how is the “class of 2006” looking today?

An overview of the partnership struck between ILPA and Cambridge Associates to create a powerful new institutional benchmark in private equity.

When is a private equity fund “born?” And how is it that GPs are able to seemingly shop for a vintage year in which their fund shows the best relative performance?

How has private equity been performing recently, and what does that performance mean for the long-term attractiveness of the asset class?

Energy-focused private equity funds have, on average, vastly outperformed other private equity funds over the past 10 to 15 years. Why?

Experts from Cambridge Associates and the Institutional Limited Partners Association share proprietary data to analyze whether a new era of wealth creation is coming to venture participants.

Why are LPs focused on “growth equity” as a distinct strategy?

The expert panel on performance discusses common challenges that a fund manager might face when pursuing a strategy that does not fall into a neat category.

Institutional investors increasingly are focused not only on the returns generated by private equity managers, but on the soundness of the firm’s infrastructure. With each passing day, it seems that the legal, regulatory and competitive environment in which private capital firms do business becomes more complex, thereby elevating the risks faced even by firms…

No more death by PowerPoint when you engage investors with these tips from two private capital veterans.

How investors in private equity’s second-largest market view the regional opportunity.

Three performance experts from Cambridge Associates, Guardian Life and Coller Capital discuss new evidence of adverse selection in LP co-investing, among other topics.

In this report, produced with our partners at EY, veteran energy investors share their thoughts on creating value in the midst of commodity price volatility.

Outperformance for value-added and opportunistic real estate in 2014, but how long will it continue?

In this subscriber-only special report, Privcap digs into how a private equity firm’s track record and due diligence findings are used to help decide whether to commit capital to a fund. Introducing: PPM Smackdown, our new video series where experts apply real analysis to fictitious funds.

Expert insights into how private equity and venture capital professionals, and investors, should assess their investments’ performance.

An essential 23-page, downloadable PrivcapRE Special Report on Performance and Portfolio.

Nine Perspectives on the Australian PE Market

A deep dive into the institutional private equity portfolio. Features interviews with the foremost authorities on portfolio construction and performance.

An exclusive report on private equity performance. This issue includes buyout fund performance, the importance of top-quartile and emerging markets performance.

In this issue of Private Equity Performance, experts from Cambridge and ILPA discuss a record year for distributions, VC and energy performance

In this issue of Private Equity Performance experts from Cambridge, ILPA and Independence Capital discuss growth equity, niche strategies and the overhang.

A special report on private equity performance, including expert insights and the most recent quarterly data from Cambridge Associates.

Predictions for the 2017 real estate debt market, and outlook on the dealmaking landscape.