Private Equity Market Data and the US Government Partisanship

With the uncertainty of US Presidential elections behind us, the current focus is on a runoff for the two Georgia Senate seats in January that decides if the United States will have a Democratic sweep or a divided government in the latest election cycle.

Using PE industry-wide cashflow transactions data offered through eFront Insight, we can explore the market performance metrics over the past 20 years that encompass five presidential election cycles to analyse the relationship between the political outcomes such as government unity and returns in the US private equity market.