The average age of buyout dry powder worldwide fluctuated significantly between 2006 and 2021. Global dry powder reached a peak average age of 35 months in 2010. Since then, the average age of dry powder has generally decreased. In 2021, however, the average age of global dry powder 25 months - three months longer than the previous year. The volume of dry powder, or private uncalled capital, has been rising year-on-year since 2013.
Average age of buyout dry powder worldwide from 2006 to 2021
(in months)
Source states:
"Notes: Buyout includes buyout, balanced, coinvestment and coinvestment multimanager funds; average age of dry powder estimated as a weighted average of dry powder by vintage year, going back to 2000; buyout funds assumed to have seven years to deploy."
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