Andrea Auerbach
Managing Director and Head of U.S. Private Equity Research, Cambridge Associates
Videos
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Is Mega-Private Equity Becoming a Public Proxy?
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…
June 14, 2019More -
On-Demand Webinar: How Boring is Your AGM?
IR experts from Cambridge Associates and Sutton Hill on how to plan an effective annual general meeting.
December 18, 2017More -
Cambridge’s Auerbach: Don’t Hate Sponsor-to-Sponsor Deals
Hate sponsor-to-sponsor transactions? You may love them after learning about new Cambridge research
August 12, 2016More -
The Inside Scoop on the Distributions ‘Boom’
Experts from Cambridge Associates, Coller Capital, and Guardian Life discuss why distributions to LPs are at record-high levels.
December 14, 2015More -
Co-investing: Why GPs Should Pick a Lane
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.
December 14, 2015More -
The Risk of Adverse Selection in Co-investing
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.
December 14, 2015More -
Mindsets Shift on Co-investment Fees
Experts from Cambridge Associates, Coller Capital, and Guardian Life discuss why there is more variation in fee structures than ever before.
December 14, 2015More -
Where is All the LP Dry Powder?
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.
December 14, 2015More -
Infrastructure: Does a 5.8% IRR Do Anything for You?
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.
October 26, 2015More -
PPM Smackdown: Kramer & Co.
This episode: Kramer Healthcare Fund I – The New Spinout
February 24, 2015More -
PPM Smackdown: TKTK Capital
This episode: TKTK Fund VI – Mega Firm Seeks Mega Redemption
February 24, 2015More -
PPM Smackdown: PebbleOak Capital
This episode: PebbleOak Capital Partners – Big Win, Big Wipeout
February 24, 2015More -
Beating the S&P 500: Should It Matter?
Should investors use public benchmarks like the S&P 500 to gauge the performance of their private equity program?
October 14, 2014More -
Venture Capital Returns: Strong, But for How Long?
How real is VC’s current outperformance, and how long will it last?
October 14, 2014More -
Are Synthetic Track Records Legitimate?
Are the synthetic track records of new firms legitimate? Are they worth the due diligence effort by investors?
October 14, 2014More -
How’s the 2004 Vintage Looking?
Ten years on, what do we know about the average performance of PE funds in the 2004 vintage?
April 9, 2014More -
Fund-Management Mistakes That Shave Off IRR Points
How to optimize the performance of your fund as a whole by avoiding key mistakes.
April 9, 2014More -
Adding Alpha Through Co-investing
A deep dive into Siguler Guff’s co-investment platform – how co-investing helped the firm add alpha to its overall portfolio.
April 9, 2014More -
Emerging Markets PE Performance
How have emerging markets private equity funds performed on average over the long term? And why is this so?
January 8, 2014More -
Big Buyout vs. Small Buyout: Who’s Better?
Which strategy has performed better – mega buyout or small buyout?
November 25, 2013More -
Is Being ‘Top-Quartile’ Really So Important?
Our performance experts tackle the most over-used term in private equity: ‘Top quartile.’
November 12, 2013More -
Impact and ESG: Investors Seek Information
Experts Weigh In: Impact and ESG Strategies – Andrea Auerbach of Cambridge Associates
November 6, 2013More -
Why Have Energy GPs Outperformed?
Energy-focused private equity funds have, on average, vastly outperformed other private equity funds over the past 10 to 15 years. Why?
September 16, 2013More -
Is Venture’s ‘Lost Decade’ Near the End?
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.
August 1, 2013More -
2012: Best Year Ever for Distributions
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.
July 22, 2013More -
Defining and Measuring Growth Equity
Why are LPs focused on “growth equity” as a distinct strategy?
July 1, 2013More -
Trouble with Niche Strategies
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.
June 12, 2013More -
The Private Equity Overhang: Overblown?
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.
May 19, 2013More -
The ILPA Benchmark
Mike Elio of ILPA and Andrea Auerbach of Cambridge Associates explain this new performance benchmark
May 2, 2013More -
In Search of Absolute Performance
Absolute performance versus top-quartile performance. With Cambridge, ILPA and Zurich.
March 20, 2013More -
Benchmarking Basics: Peer Groups
It’s a tricky but critical categorization to make–how should a fund manager be benchmarked?
March 20, 2013More -
How Are the 2006 LBO Funds Looking Now?
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?
March 8, 2013More -
About the Cambridge/ILPA Partnership
An overview of the partnership struck between ILPA and Cambridge Associates to create a powerful new institutional benchmark in private equity.
March 2, 2013More -
Vintage-Year Games and Controversies
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?
February 20, 2013More -
Private Equity Performance: Q3 2012
How has private equity been performing recently, and what does that performance mean for the long-term attractiveness of the asset class?
February 19, 2013More
Reports
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Death By Powerpoint: Why Your AGM is Boring – and How to Fix It
No more death by PowerPoint when you engage investors with these tips from two private capital veterans.
February 5, 2018More -
Private Equity Performance 2015
Three performance experts from Cambridge Associates, Guardian Life and Coller Capital discuss new evidence of adverse selection in LP co-investing, among other topics.
December 14, 2015More -
Special Report: PPM Smackdown
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.
February 24, 2015More -
Private Equity Performance
Expert insights into how private equity and venture capital professionals, and investors, should assess their investments’ performance.
October 14, 2014More -
Performance & Portfolio
A deep dive into the institutional private equity portfolio. Features interviews with the foremost authorities on portfolio construction and performance.
April 9, 2014More -
Private Equity Performance Q1 2014
An exclusive report on private equity performance. This issue includes buyout fund performance, the importance of top-quartile and emerging markets performance.
January 3, 2014More -
Private Equity Performance, Vol. III
In this issue of Private Equity Performance, experts from Cambridge and ILPA discuss a record year for distributions, VC and energy performance
October 23, 2013More -
Private Equity Performance, Volume II
In this issue of Private Equity Performance experts from Cambridge, ILPA and Independence Capital discuss growth equity, niche strategies and the overhang.
August 9, 2013More -
Private Equity Performance
A special report on private equity performance, including expert insights and the most recent quarterly data from Cambridge Associates.
March 25, 2013More
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