More recent returns for private equity, which includes venture capital and buyout funds, were not available.
Only one in five "high net-worth" individuals now invests in any form of private equity (which includes venture capital as well as hedge funds).
Nevertheless, the country ranks only 10th in Western Europe in private equity investing, which includes venture capital financing for new companies -- far behind Britain, France and Germany, according to the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, a trade group based in Brussels.
The absolute return portfolio, which is a group of hedge funds that strive to produce fundamentally uncorrelated returns, accounts for 23% of assets; our real assets portfolio, which includes timber, oil and gas, and real estate, amounts to 28% of the portfolio; and private equity, which includes venture capital and leveraged buyouts, is 19% of assets.
As of June 1999, the end of the most recent fiscal year for which complete figures are available, only 8percentt of the average college endowment was invested in alternative assets like real estate, hedge funds, oil and gas partnerships, distressed securities, arbitrage opportunities and private equity, which includes venture capital and leveraged buyouts.
Including a U.S. private equity shops, which includes venture funds, 198 funds raised $45.1 billion during the first half, down 26% from the same period in 2009.
Tracxn claims that its roster of clients, which includes venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capita, SoftBank, and Google Capital, has grown by 400percentt over the last year, while its staff of analysts has increased from 25too 125.
Not surprisingly, its member base — which includes venture capitalist Dennis Phelps, former Lady Gaga manager Troy Carter and actor Jared Leto, who is also an investor — is affluent.
Feld Entertainment says that its productions, which include ventures with the Walt Disney Company, are seen by 25 million people a year around the world, and that its 50 or so elephants are as much a part of the circus as clowns and trapeze artists.
Investors such as pension funds and endowments set aside a certain percentage of their money for alternative investments, which include venture capital.
