Estimating Private Equity Returns from Limited Partner Cash Flows
提出一种仅需有限合伙人现金流数据即可估算私募股权基金历史回报的方法，发现1994至2015年间回报存在周期性且因基金类型而异，支持市场分割假说。
ABSTRACT We introduce a methodology to estimate the historical time series of returns to investment in private equity funds. The approach requires only an unbalanced panel of cash contributions and distributions accruing to limited partners and is robust to sparse data. We decompose private equity returns from 1994 to 2015 into a component due to traded factors and a time‐varying private equity premium not spanned by publicly traded factors. We find cyclicality in private equity returns that differs according to fund type and is consistent with the conjecture that capital market segmentation contributes to private equity returns.