Returns, risks and liquidity of VC Funds in Q3 2020
At the close of Q3, 2020 has shown to be an exceptional year for venture capital performance, with funds globally …
Feb 02, 2021
Venture capital has a reputation for being a very risky investment type, despite authoritative studies showing that at a fund level this perception significantly overstates the actual risk to investors. Yet risk of loss remains, and it can be helpful for LPs to model potential losses while accounting for historic fund selection skill. In this edition of Front Line, we use data from Pevara to take a ‘Value at Risk’ approach to modelling potential losses across various worst-case scenarios, digging deeply into the poorest performers across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, in order to see how losses play out.
The analysis supports the academic view of venture capital as less risky than advertised, while providing interesting projections into the scale of potential losses and the different risk profiles of venture capital as practiced across different geographies.
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Returns, risks and liquidity of VC Funds in Q3 2020
At the close of Q3, 2020 has shown to be an exceptional year for venture capital performance, with funds globally …
Feb 02, 2021
Private Equity Market Data and the US Government Partisanship
See what our data reveals for private equity performance when comparing a divided vs. unified US government ahead of the …
Dec 17, 2020
Private equity in the COVID-19 year
Our latest research reveals that the global private equity market showed higher resiliency and lower volatility over the first two …
Dec 14, 2020