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Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:

The proportion of investors reporting net annual returns of over 16% across the lifetime of their private equity portfolios has reached near-record levels, said a study.

According to Coller Capital's latest Global Private Equity Barometer. 42% of Limited Partners (LPs) now have portfolio-lifetime annual returns of over 16% net.

Over 70% of LPs say their private equity assets have outperformed their public equity portfolios since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), said a study. Indeed, most LPs say they would hit their target private equity returns if each of their funds achieved only the median performance for its fund type in its vintage year.

Most private equity investors in all regions of the world believe that ESG investing creates value in individual portfolio companies, in addition to providing portfolio-level value by excluding high-risk investments and business practices.

For investors who focus on individual ESG risks, climate change is by far the most important environmental issue. In fact, it comes close to being a universal concern - 93% of ESG-engaged LPs said it was a focus for them. By contrast, European investors focus to a far greater extent on more specific environmental issues (such as biodiversity and deforestation) than their peers elsewhere.

Meanwhile, investors see the more developed private credit markets of North America and Europe as being more attractive than those in other regions in the next two......................

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