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Irr
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Irregular galaxy
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The internal rate of return (IRR) is the usual measure.
(According to Preqin, a research firm, the median net IRR of large 2006 vintage buy-out funds was -11.9%. So far investors remain sufficiently optimistic about Blackstone's ability to produce returns to fork out more capital.
The median net IRR for 2007 funds at European firms is -10.4%.
The 2006 vintage had a net IRR of -11.2% as of March.
In the retail sector, according to our figures, the average IRR from energy efficiency projects leaps to 82%.
"IRRI scientists don't like the approach we take.
Most worrying is how little help most of the IRR figures are, since most private-equity investments have as yet returned precious little cash.Some of the world's best-known bosses are finding second careers in private equityThere is another concern for private-equity investors apart from the lack of transparency.
But according to a 2010 study by Peter Morris, a former banker, entitled "Private Equity, Public Loss?", it is rare for two firms to calculate IRR in the same way.
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Prodded by lawsuits, CalPERS and UTIMCO, a University of Texas endowment fund, have published their performance figures including the IRRs of their private-equity portfolios.
And one of the tricks used to enhance IRRs in recent years, paying special dividends funded from even more borrowing, is no longer an option given credit-market conditions.
While Student Rights' directors deny this – pointing to some recent work on far right extremism - according to the Institute for Race Relations IRRR) "the majority of its work has been on 'Islamic extremist' events" and "its counter-extremism agenda shares some aspects of the far Right's framework about Islam and the Left".
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