Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows

This paper investigates the performance of private equity partnerships using a data set of individual fund returns collected by Venture Economics. Over the sample period, average fund returns net of fees approximately equal the S&P 500 although there is a large degree of heterogeneity among fund...

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Main Authors: Kaplan, Steve, Schoar, Antoinette
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5050