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Global PE funds posted a quarterly record in the first quarter, returning 17.6%, according to PitchBook’s latest Global Funds Performance Report. Very active capital markets are helping boost quarterly return numbers to historical highs. Preliminary Q2 returns show some deceleration, estimated at 8.8%, but still well above PE’s five-year quarterly average. Mega-funds of $5 billion or more have shown the most resilience through the pandemic. Collectively, their rolling one-year horizon IRR was 56.8% in Q1 compared to 47.6% for the entire industry. Underperforming by almost half is the sub-$500M PE fund market, which hit a rolling one-year IRR of 23.9%.
(Past performance is no guarantee of future results.)
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