The 2024 Search Fund Study by Stanford Graduate School of Business
June 28, 2024
by a searcher from University of Maryland at College Park in Washington, DC, USA
The 2024 Search Fund Study has been released today!
The 2024 Search Fund Study reports on the financial returns and key qualities of search funds formed in the United States and Canada since###-###-#### This reports updates the previous 2022 study with data through December 31, 2023.
"Adding data from the last two years, returns from all search funds since 1984 fell in line
with those reported in recent studies, with a few notable variations. The internal rate of
return (IRR) was 35.1%, compared to 35.3% in the 2022 study, and return on investment
(ROI) was 4.5x in the 2024 study, down from 5.2x in###-###-#### Notably, the IRR for companies
that have exited increased to 42.9% from 36.8% as several exits in###-###-#### achieved
significant returns."
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/case-studies/2024-search-fund-study
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