
May 17, 2019
Chart of the Month: Secondary Returns From Discount vs. Asset Growth
Discounts are not necessarily the biggest driver of returns. Cobalt’s May Chart of the Month explains what this can mean for your secondary strategy returns.

April 26, 2019
Chart of the Month: Comparing Private Markets and Public Indices
Cobalt LP’s April Chart of the Month compares private markets against public indices. This chart highlights fund performance for each vintage year.

March 22, 2019
Chart of the Month: Risk Adjusted Performance Over A 20 Year Basis
Hamilton Lane’s March Chart of the Month evaluates private equity risk adjusted performance over a 20 year basis. It highlights the annualized time-weighted return for private equity, credit and real assets.

February 22, 2019
Chart of the Month: Real Estate Performance in Private Equity
Factors that have benefited industrial real estate growth and observations of property type returns and risks over the past 40 years.

January 25, 2019
Contributions and Distributions, Industry-Level Insight
Cobalt LP shares industry-level insights on contributions and distributions from 2018 data on our January Chart of the Month.

December 14, 2018
Chart of the Month: Trends in 2018 Private Equity
Understanding 2018’s trends in private equity can help clients gain market perspective and adjust their portfolio in the context of the market. The Hamilton Lane dataset shows yearly trends and more.

November 16, 2018
Chart of the Month: Status of Outperformance in Private Equity
Many would agree that the hassle and expense of investing in PE has been its assumed outperformance over the public markets. Our chart takes a look at what the data has to say in regards to outperformance.

October 19, 2018
Chart of the Month: Dry Powder and NAV in Private Equity
Our October Chart of the month shows dry powder and NAV record holdings and what this could mean for private equity throughout 2018.

September 28, 2018
Chart of the Month: NAV and Dry Powder Records In 2018
NAV and Dry Powder continue to set record levels across the private markets, indicating that the private markets are healthy and growing. Cobalt LP’s Chart of the Month explains what this means for 2018.

August 17, 2018
Chart of the Month: Investment Activity in the Private Markets
LPs have been attentively monitoring investment activities more than ever before. Cobalt’s data-driven approach helps to provide context to this behavior.