In November the Wall Street Journal, along with with Dow Jones and Private Equity News/Financial News, published a list of the world’s top 10 private equity firms based on performance. Nordic Capital did very well int he ranking and grabbed secind place. The list is based on academic research providing a view of a private equity firm's performance relative to its peers during the period 1996-2005.

The academics behind the research have developed a proprietary methodology that makes it possible to comprehensively assess the aggregate performance of all funds managed by a Private Equity manager.

This ranking answers the question: "Which firm(s) generated the best performance for their investors over the past years?" It draws on performance information from all buyout funds managed by a given PE Firm and aggregates their performance based on a novel and proprietary methodology into one overall performance score.

The analysis was done by Oliver Gottschalg, associate professor of strategy and business policy at HEC School of Management in Paris in association with Private Equity News.

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