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How Limited Partners are Embracing Data and Technology
November 6, 2019

How Limited Partners are Embracing Data and Technology

Learn more about how limited partners are embracing data and technology in today’s private markets by partnering with Hamilton Lane and Cobalt LP for: Running diligence on potential investments by leveraging the power of Hamilton Lane’s Fund Investment Team for qualitative and quantitative evaluation. Continuous monitoring of their active investments[…]
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Chart of the Month: Private Equity IRR by Vintage Year
October 25, 2019

Chart of the Month: Private Equity IRR by Vintage Year

Private markets often use IRR as a performance metric to measure returns over a fund's life Quartiles break down the IRRs, ranked least to greatest, for each vintage year by 25% increments of each grouping Historically top quartile funds generate significantly higher returns than bottom quartile funds Returns during the[...]
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Deal Level Metrics: A Quick Overview
October 8, 2019

Deal Level Metrics: A Quick Overview

Deal level metrics enable LPs to evaluate how a manager is adding value to the underlying companies within a fund. Metrics can also be used to help LPs understand the risk associated with an investment, the overall health of the investment and benchmark the investment to the broader markets (in[...]
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Chart of the Month: Leverage Multiples Across Vintage Years
September 27, 2019

Chart of the Month: Leverage Multiples Across Vintage Years

The above chart shows how leverage multiples can dramatically impact the overall gross IRR of a deal: the highest IRR's come in deals with a 6x-8x leverage multiple (Acquisition Net Debt/EBITDA) the lowest volatility returns in deals come from investments made with a 4x-6x leverage multiple which is expected
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New Deal Level Benchmarks
September 24, 2019

New Deal Level Benchmarks

We've revamped the deal level benchmarks in Cobalt LP to provide our clients with best-in-class access to Hamilton Lane's proprietary data. A sampling of the new deal level dataset... To learn more about the other features within Cobalt LP, click here.
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The Unicorn Playbook: 2019 Edition
September 16, 2019

The Unicorn Playbook: 2019 Edition

By: Roderick Berry, Managing Director at Hamilton Lane In the investment world, the term “Unicorn” is widely understood to represent a privately-held company that has reached a billion-dollar valuation. In 2013, when venture capitalist Aileen Lee first coined the term, 39 such companies were in existence. However, as of June[...]
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Private Markets in Asia: A Country-by-Country Guide
September 10, 2019

Private Markets in Asia: A Country-by-Country Guide

By: Mingchen Xia, Managing Director at Hamilton Lane and Shannon Chow, Principal at Hamilton Lane In 1991, the private markets landscape looked remarkably different than it does today. “Private equity” really just meant “buyout” and there were only a smattering of funds to choose from. Today, this asset class paints[...]
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Chart of the Month: Infrastructure Returns in Private Equity
August 23, 2019

Chart of the Month: Infrastructure Returns in Private Equity

Cobalt’s August Chart of the Month explores private equity infrastructure returns.
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Market Insights: 2Q 2019
August 15, 2019

Market Insights: 2Q 2019

Cobalt Market Insights is just a sample of the intelligence that can be gained from the Market Analysis part of the Cobalt LP platform. Investors are using our comprehensive, accurate, and timely market data to drive portfolio construction and investment selection decisions.
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Cobalt: A Powerful Tool for Limited Partners
August 7, 2019

Cobalt: A Powerful Tool for Limited Partners

Learn more about Cobalt: A powerful tool for limited partners to leverage for analytics, market data and diligence.
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In 2016, Hamilton Lane, a global private markets asset management firm with more than 28 years of experience, together with Bison, a cutting-edge software solutions firm, brought Cobalt to the market. This unique partnership created a leading private markets platform with a robust product suite of solutions for both GPs and LPs.

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