State Street Announces Private Equity Index Results
May 04 2009 - 10:41AM
Business Wire
State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), the world�s leading
provider of financial services to institutional investors,
announced today the results of the State Street Private Equity
Indexsm as of December 31, 2008. The index is based on the latest
quarterly statistics from State Street Investment Analytics�
Private Edge� Group and includes more than 1,500 private equity
partnerships with aggregate commitments of approximately $1.5
trillion.
The Private Edge� Group provides detailed analyses of private
equity investments for a diverse client base including public and
private pensions, endowments and foundations, representing nearly
5,000 commitments totaling approximately $200 billion. The Private
Edge� Group has one of the most extensive and comprehensive private
equity data sets currently maintained in the marketplace, including
partnership information down to the portfolio company level.
The following tables depict the quarter-over-quarter internal
rates of return (IRR) of the index, the end-to-end IRRs for the
index across 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year horizons as of December 31,
2008, and the long-term internal rates of return (IRR) of the index
by major private equity strategy, in addition to the composition of
the index:
��State Street Private Equity
Indexsm
Composition and long-term IRR
as of December 31, 2008
� � �
Strategy �
Number of Funds �
Commitments
($B) �
Long-term IRR % Buyout � 701 � 1,058.2 � 10.1
Venture Capital � 629 � 207.3 � 10.0 Other � 192 � 187.1 � 5.3
Total � 1.522 � 1,452.6 � 9.6 US only � 1,238 � 1,102.5 � 9.7
International only � 284 � 350.1 � 9.3
The Private Equity industry exhibited a quarterly return decline
for the fifth consecutive quarter in Q4 2008. The return for the
State Street Private Equity Index was -16.32% for Q4 2008, which is
a near 800 basis point decline from the prior quarter. Despite the
recent declines, the analysis of returns for Q4 2008 generated some
positive results.
�Private equity funds generally held their ground better than
public equities during the fourth quarter of 2008,� commented
William Pryor, senior vice president of State Street Investment
Analytics. In Q4 2008, the S&P 500 reported a -21.94% quarterly
return, while the Russell 3000 reported an even larger -22.78%
decline. The 500-600 basis point outperformance of private equity
versus public equity during the fourth quarter is notable, given
that in Q3 2008, the private equity return was only 0-30 basis
points higher than these two public equity indices. On an
annualized basis, the State Street Private Equity Index reported a
one year return of -25.76%, outperforming the S&P 500 return of
-38.49% for 2008.
While the fourth quarter returns were down across all major
private equity strategies, the Venture Capital funds in the State
Street Private Equity Index demonstrated resiliency to public
market volatility and declined by only -9.66%.
�Venture Capital funds, by their nature, tend to be less
affected by difficult credit conditions than do Buyout, Distressed
Debt and Credit Opportunity funds,� added Pryor. �In the fourth
quarter of 2008, the private equity funds that had the highest
exposure to the credit markets, either through highly leveraged
portfolio companies or by direct investment in debt securities,
experienced the largest losses of any private equity strategy as
general partners wrestled with the impact of the global credit
crisis on their interim valuations.�
Both domestic and international private equity returns declined
in the fourth quarter. Domestic funds in the Index reported a
-14.69% return and International funds reported a -21.42% return in
Q4 2008. Overall, the magnitude of the return changes between third
and fourth quarters for domestic funds and for international funds
were relatively even, indicative of the global nature of the
challenges impacting the current economic environment.
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is the world's leading
provider of financial services to institutional investors including
investment servicing, investment management and investment research
and trading. With $11.3 trillion in assets under custody and $1.4
trillion in assets under management at March 31, 2009, State Street
operates in 27 countries and more than 100 geographic markets
worldwide. For more information, visit State Street�s web site at
www.statestreet.com.
About State Street Investment
Analytics (SSIA)
State Street Investment Analytics (SSIA) provides performance
and analytics services through 14 offices globally and has more
than 500 dedicated investment performance professionals. Offering
comprehensive services in performance, compliance, risk and
strategic analysis, State Street Investment Analytics is well
positioned to help customers monitor and measure the success of
their investment strategies in any market and asset class including
alternative investments, and currently provides services for
approximately 1,000 customers with asset volumes of more than $5
trillion. For more information on our services, please visit
www.statestreet.com/analytics.
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