{"id":46719,"date":"2015-03-02T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46719"},"modified":"2015-03-02T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T13:20:10","slug":"2014-private-equity-exit-volume-highest-level-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2015\/2014-private-equity-exit-volume-highest-level-on-record.html","title":{"rendered":"2014 Private Equity Exit Volume Highest Level on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Arrow-Up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-24448 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Arrow-Up.jpg\" alt=\"Arrow Up\" width=\"257\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Arrow-Up.jpg 346w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Arrow-Up-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Arrow-Up-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The Private Equity Growth Capital Council&#8217;s Trends Report for the fourth quarter of 2014 was released today. The report indicates that the industry recorded its highest exit volume ever last year, at $257 billion, and also closed the year with the most investment volume since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We finished 2014 with all the key metrics for industry health in strong standing,&#8221; said Steve Judge, President and CEO of the PEGCC. &#8220;The private equity industry invested a record amount of capital into American companies last year. Fund managers continue to find new investment opportunities and provide the necessary capital to help businesses expand and innovate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425301485564_19034\">\u00a0The report also found that:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425301485564_19031\">\n<li id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425301485564_19030\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425301485564_19029\">Callable capital reserves increased significantly from $399 billion in December 2013 to $467 billion in December 2014.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Total equity financing for leveraged buyouts increased from 37 percent at the end of 2013 to 39 percent for 2014.<\/li>\n<li>While overall private equity fundraising dipped slightly from 2013, the fourth quarter of 2014 saw a significant increase in fundraising over the third quarter of 2014, increasing from $32 billion to $58 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425301485564_19051\">Bronwyn Bailey, Vice President of Research at the PEGCC, noted that the exit trends meant strong returns for investors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Exit volume in 2014 translated into tangible benefits for investors, namely, record distributions from private equity funds,&#8221; Bailey said. &#8220;If public indices remain high, I expect continued robust exit volume in the upcoming year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425301485564_19040\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425301485564_19042\">Released each quarter, the PEGCC&#8217;s Trends Report provides\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425301485564_19041\">an analysis of key factors impacting private equity industry activity in the U.S.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425301485564_19043\">The full report can be found <\/span><a id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425301485564_19044\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=00124LFe94l6v_7IcCBO89-ni2paTTDKbo1EfYl6U_dfGsI1M1y-J0Kd-7qI8R0b3SiblUkgmxW8BbxO_T6S2M1ZGEK1IxiDfF1pC5ZLTZTh7rQZzPF-VJAxXIfw7XpzKQSVrSaeNzIAQF3XEy_eS9C1ue3mYUlLgxh42PFUbGM_ERtiPZC4dzz1BD-cav-b1B5AIZroMfGBRwlFc_4kPCCoypWR-6IQqUSXfABwOsx_76mIRK_-WfHwQ==&amp;c=BYYLjJz3LJHZYRa8RIo5YE8XSo-tdCKQ0ZmUbt9zai-1TlTjDi5zbQ==&amp;ch=auuOFol_n0JD7G9cQDBz4bXJAt_dTPvrcEWBUOvD9GG2nmOP_b46ag==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">here<\/a><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425301485564_19050\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425301485564_19045\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The Private Equity Growth Capital Council&#8217;s Trends Report for the fourth quarter of 2014 was released today. The report indicates that the industry recorded its highest exit volume ever last year, at $257 billion, and also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[919,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46725,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719\/revisions\/46725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}