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Rise of Private Equity Evergreens: Moving from IRRs to Time-Weighted Returns

Jul. 15, 2025
As private equity evergreen funds continue to grow and attract an increasing pool of capital, a new Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA) report entitled “Rise of Private Equity Evergreens: Moving from IRRs to Time-Weighted Returns” explains that evaluating the performance of these funds requires a shift away from internal rates of return (IRRs) to time-weighted returns. Drawdown fund IRRs,...
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Rethinking Benchmarks: Listed Equities Benchmarks Continue to Misrepresent Pension Fund Private Equities Performance

Jul. 04, 2025
The benchmarks employed by certain institutional investors fail to capture the performance and risk attributes of the private equities market. This leads to incorrect assessments of risk-adjusted performance. A new Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA) report entitled “Rethinking Benchmarks: Listed Equities Benchmarks Continue to Misrepresent Pension Fund Private Equities Performance” states that the private equities market is large and...
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What is the Private Equities Market? And how different is it from public equities?

Jun. 16, 2025
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Reducing Capital Charges in Risk-Based Prudential Frameworks: Evaluating Tail Risk in Private and Infra Equities

Jun. 16, 2025
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Building Custom Private Equity Fund Benchmarks: Versatility and robustness to evaluate private asset managers with privateMetrics®

Jun. 02, 2025
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Getting the Price Right in GP-Led Secondaries: A look at the Nord Anglia deal through the privateMetrics® lens

May. 27, 2025
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