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ICOSR private equity opinions survey Autumn 2002

Many European private equity professionals expect the abnormally high failure rate for investments to persist for the foreseeable future, according to ICOSR in their autumn 2002 private equity opinions survey. They also agree that the continuing poor state of the IPO market is hampering their ability to achieve exits.

ICOSR warns that the lack of exit opportunities is likely to make life difficult for many private equity firms going forward. Venture firms may begin to find it difficult to achieve the hurdle rates that they have promised their investors, forfeiting their carried interest. Some 42 private equity funds were involved in the survey.

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