HarbourVest Global Private Equity Ltd (LON:HVPEa) is celebrating 10 years since its launch in December 2007. Over the period since its inception to end-October 2017, HVPE has outperformed global equity markets and its listed private equity peer group, represented by the LPX 50 index, in both NAV and share price terms. In this note, we analyse a series of alternative performance measures which show that, on a risk-adjusted basis, HVPE’s share price performance has tended to compare favourably to global equity markets, while its risk-adjusted NAV returns have also compared positively to its listed private equity peer group over most time periods.
Outperforming global stock markets over 10 years
Over the period since its inception to end-October 2017, HVPE has achieved NAV and share price total returns of 7.0% pa and 5.7% pa respectively in US dollar terms. This compares to the 4.7% pa returns of both the MSCI AC World and FTSE All-World indices, against which HVPE has benchmarked its performance over the 10-year period. In sterling terms, HVPE’s NAV and share price total returns over this period were 11.6% pa and 10.3% pa respectively, while the returns of the MSCI AC World and FTSE All-World indices were 9.2% pa and 9.3% pa respectively.
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