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Continuation Funds: Performance and Determinants, 2018-2022 Vintages

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  • Gottschalg, Oliver

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Continuation funds are an emerging and increasingly important vehicle for private equity funds to exit their investments while keeping control of the asset. Due to their short history, as well as the notoriously opaque nature of private equity, we know little about the performance of these funds, and even less about the determinants of performance itself. To fill this gap, I combined primary data collection with archival data search, and compiled a data base of 231 continuation funds generated in the 2018-2022 period: for 140 of those, I also collected performance data. Preliminary exploratory analysis reveals little return differences across industries, markets, or type of fund (single- vs multi-asset). In a further effort to understand returns, I compare 159 funds from the 2019 vintage to 184 simulated multi-asset funds: I find that while returns are comparable, the risk profile of single-asset funds is lower, indicating a narrower spread of outcomes.

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  • Gottschalg, Oliver, 2024. "Continuation Funds: Performance and Determinants, 2018-2022 Vintages," HEC Research Papers Series 1515, HEC Paris.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebg:heccah:1515
    DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4752652
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    Keywords

    private equity; continuation funds; risk profile;
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    JEL classification:

    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill

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