State Street detects ‘positive and meaningful gains’ in 3Q private equity returns

SINGAPORE (Feb 22): State Street Corporation has released the 3Q results of its Global Exchange (GX) Private Equity Index (PEI), a benchmark for comparative analysis of private equity performance based on directly-sourced limited partnership data.

The latest index saw an overall return of 3.8% in 3Q16 – with buyout, private debt and venture capital each posting positive one-year returns of 10.38%, 6.13% and 4.72% respectively.  

State Street also notes that despite the slowdown in activity, venture capital recovered from its previous two quarters of lacklustre returns, posting a quarterly gain of 3.72% in 3Q, up from 0.28% in 2Q.

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