During the first half of 2014, US private equity and venture capital funds performed well, with both outpacing public markets. Over the first six months of the year, private equity has slightly outperformed venture capital.

In 2013, US private equity and venture capital turned in their best annual performance since 2006 and 1999, respectively. Strong returns from the large sectors, particularly financial services in the private equity benchmark and information technology (IT) in venture, contributed most to the indexes’ results. In the five years between 2009 and 2013, private equity…

US private equity and venture capital funds began 2014 with positive first quarter returns, as indicated by the Cambridge Associates LLC benchmark indexes. Compared to their strong fourth quarter performance, private equity and venture capital fund returns were lower for the quarter, as were public equity returns. For the second quarter in a row the…