The Private Equity industry is notorious for being opaque and access to any data is chronically difficult. In particular, little is known about the performance and competitive behaviour of the key PE Firms.

While performance rankings exists for many other areas (the best ‘business school’, the best ‘place to work’, the best ‘stock market analyst’ etc), nothing worth that name existed for a long time in PE. Prior to our initiative, the only available rankings for Private Equity were based on size alone, which has very limited meaning.

Since 2009, HEC Paris and Dow-Jones have joined forces to publish regular rankings of PE Firms based on their historic performance and expected future competitiveness respectively. Over the past years, we expanded the coverage beyond the Large Cap Buyout space into mid-market and small-cap buyouts, but also into VC funds, Fund of Funds and Secondary Funds.

We are proud to have supported the ranking efforts since inception as an initial sponsor contributing the core methodology.