Market Insights
January 7, 2020
Key Considerations for Private Credit Investors
By: Drew Schardt, Head of Private Credit at Hamilton Lane Private credit continues to grow as an asset class within the private markets. When we look at private debt fundraising by year, you can see that the fundraising amounts continue to increase and diversify. As we look at a new[...]
December 18, 2019
Trends to Watch in 2020: A Webinar Recap
Last week, our friends at DealCloud hosted a webinar about trends to watch in 2020. This webinar, featuring perspectives from the deal maker, fund manager and technology angle, discussed the factors that will impact the market most heavily. Read on to learn more about our key takeaways from the webinar.[...]
November 11, 2019
Market Insights: 3Q 2019
Cobalt Market Insights is just a sample of the intelligence that can be gained from the Market Analysis part of the Cobalt LP platform. Investors are using our comprehensive, accurate, and timely market data to drive portfolio construction and investment selection decisions.
November 6, 2019
How Limited Partners are Embracing Data and Technology
Learn more about how limited partners are embracing data and technology in today’s private markets by partnering with Hamilton Lane and Cobalt LP for: Running diligence on potential investments by leveraging the power of Hamilton Lane’s Fund Investment Team for qualitative and quantitative evaluation. Continuous monitoring of their active investments[…]
October 25, 2019
Chart of the Month: Private Equity IRR by Vintage Year
Private markets often use IRR as a performance metric to measure returns over a fund's life Quartiles break down the IRRs, ranked least to greatest, for each vintage year by 25% increments of each grouping Historically top quartile funds generate significantly higher returns than bottom quartile funds Returns during the[...]
September 16, 2019
The Unicorn Playbook: 2019 Edition
By: Roderick Berry, Managing Director at Hamilton Lane In the investment world, the term “Unicorn” is widely understood to represent a privately-held company that has reached a billion-dollar valuation. In 2013, when venture capitalist Aileen Lee first coined the term, 39 such companies were in existence. However, as of June[...]
September 10, 2019
Private Markets in Asia: A Country-by-Country Guide
By: Mingchen Xia, Managing Director at Hamilton Lane and Shannon Chow, Principal at Hamilton Lane In 1991, the private markets landscape looked remarkably different than it does today. “Private equity” really just meant “buyout” and there were only a smattering of funds to choose from. Today, this asset class paints[...]
August 23, 2019
Chart of the Month: Infrastructure Returns in Private Equity
Cobalt’s August Chart of the Month explores private equity infrastructure returns.
August 15, 2019
Market Insights: 2Q 2019
Cobalt Market Insights is just a sample of the intelligence that can be gained from the Market Analysis part of the Cobalt LP platform. Investors are using our comprehensive, accurate, and timely market data to drive portfolio construction and investment selection decisions.
July 24, 2019
Liquidity within the Private Markets as seen in 2019
Discover the most recent liquidity trends as seen in the private markets during the first half of 2019 in Hamilton Lane’s mid-year Market Overview.
