July 2, 2020
Chart of the Month: NAVs and Dry Powder
Leverage Hamilton Lane's Q4 benchmarks to quickly analyze your portfolio and access industry-level insights. See below for a sample industry-level analysis of NAVs and dry powder. Analyzing NAVs and dry powder enable investors to see the gap between the amount of money that has been invested in the private markets[...]
May 22, 2020
Chart of the Month: Updated Q4 Benchmarks
During these unprecedented economic times due to COVID-19, we remain dedicated to providing the most updated content. We're proud to offer direct access to Hamilton Lane's most recent benchmark data, updated through Q4 2019. Leverage the updated Q4 benchmarks to quickly analyze your portfolio and access industry-level insights. See below[...]
March 27, 2020
Chart of the Month: IRR by Vintage Year and Strategy
Understanding Historic IRR by Vintage Year within the Private Markets When we look at historic IRR by vintage year, private equity funds have the highest returns in each of the past ten vintage years. Historically, private equity has higher returns relative to credit and real assets because it is a[...]
March 23, 2020
Deal Level Benchmark – Updated through Sept 30, 2019
Cobalt LP has just updated our deal level benchmark through September 30, 2019. Leverage this updated benchmark in the following ways and more: During diligence, compare a manager's historic acquisition multiples at entry to the broader market Dive deep across four layers of GICS to access multiples specific to the[...]
March 16, 2020
Private Markets Performance
Investors in the private markets are typically focused on private markets performance in two ways: How have the private markets performed? How does that performance compare to the public markets? Using Cobalt LP’s benchmark and industry-level data, we’re able to take a look at both of these areas. Private Markets[...]
November 19, 2019
Bridging the Data Gap between GPs and LPs – Key Takeaways
On Wednesday, November 6th, Cobalt & MVision Private Equity Advisers co-hosted an event around how GPs and LPs can bridge the data gap. This event featured Jim Strang, Managing Director and Head of EMEA for Hamilton Lane, and Chris Davison, Partner at Permira, discussing the attraction of European investments, the[…]
July 19, 2019
Capital Raised by the 20 Largest Closed-End Funds
The 20 largest funds raised each year have represented a larger portion of total private markets fundraising, but we are still off peak levels.
May 14, 2019
Leveraging Private Market Equivalents (PME) for Industry-Level Analysis
Many LPs are already leveraging Private Market Equivalents (PMEs) for portfolio analytics. However, Cobalt LP shares the value in leveraging PMEs for industry-level analysis as a whole.
February 13, 2019
Now Available: 4Q 2018 Market Insights Using Cobalt LP Data
Explore a sample of the Market Analysis intelligence from the Cobalt LP platform. These 4Q 2018 Market Insights are just a small portion of our comprehensive market data used by investors to drive portfolio construction and investment decisions.
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.
