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Alternate Investment Funds Benchmarks
Crisil is the pioneer in benchmarks for the alternative investment funds (AIFs) industry in India.
Our benchmarks cover all the three broad categories of AIFs – Category I, II and III – and provide investors with a metric to compare an AIF’s performance with the category average.
The benchmarks have been developed taking into consideration various facets of the industry and are on a par with global performance metrics.
For categories I and II, our AIF benchmarks use aspects such as pooled internal rate of return (IRR), investment multiples and ratios such as distribution to paid-in capital (DPI), residual value to paid-in capital (RVPI), and total value to paid-in capital (TVPI). We also provide benchmarks based on vintage years to bring in uniformity in the comparison of funds with similar first close timeline.
Further, we calculate the public market equivalent (PME+) for Category I and II to compare the performance of the benchmarks with public market indices.
For Category III, we have created an asset-weighted index using quarterly returns and the respective assets under management. We have considered only those vintage years when at least three schemes were available.
Crisil has also created 16 sub-category benchmarks across Categories I, II, and III.
Category I
Category II
Category III
The sub-category benchmarks add further granularity to the AIF benchmarks and enable like-for-like comparison.
For all category and sub-category benchmarks, returns are calculated on post-expense, pre-carry, and pre-tax basis, and in rupees as well as US dollar.
| Total schemes | |||||
Values as on September 30, 2025
DPI: Distributions to paid-in capital, RVPI: Residual Value to paid-in capital, TVPI: Total Value to paid-in capital
Schemes that have completed at least one year since their first close as on September 30, 2025, have been considered
Returns and ratios refer to post-expense, pre-carry, pre-tax values
Only those vintage years have been considered that have at least 3 schemes available.
FY denotes financial year; for example, FY14 refers to period between April 2013 and March 2014
The total of DPI and RVPI may not add up to the TVPI number because of rounding off
^ Data pertains to the first half of the year, i.e. only those schemes that had their first close between April and September 2024
| Total schemes | |||||
Values as on September 30, 2025
DPI: Distributions to paid-in capital, RVPI: Residual Value to paid-in capital, TVPI: Total Value to paid-in capital
Schemes that have completed at least one year since thzeir first close as on September 30, 2025, have been considered
Returns and ratios refer to post-expense, pre-carry, pre-tax values
Only those vintage years have been considered that have at least 3 schemes available.
FY denotes financial year; for example, FY14 refers to period between April 2013 and March 2014
The total of DPI and RVPI may not add up to the TVPI number because of rounding off
^ Data pertains to the first half of the year, i.e. only those schemes that had their first close between April and September 2024
| Total schemes | |||||
Values as on September 30, 2025
DPI: Distributions to paid-in capital, RVPI: Residual Value to paid-in capital, TVPI: Total Value to paid-in capital
Schemes that have completed at least one year since their first close as on September 30, 2025, have been considered
Returns and ratios refer to post-expense, pre-carry, pre-tax values
Only those vintage years have been considered that have at least 3 schemes available.
FY denotes financial year; for example, FY14 refers to period between April 2013 and March 2014
The total of DPI and RVPI may not add up to the TVPI number because of rounding off
^ Data pertains to the first half of the year, i.e. only those schemes that had their first close between April and September 2024
Values as on September 30, 2025
DPI: Distributions to paid-in capital, RVPI: Residual Value to paid-in capital, TVPI: Total Value to paid-in capital
Schemes that have completed at least one year since their first close as on September 30, 2025, have been considered
Returns and ratios refer to post-expense, pre-carry, pre-tax values
Only those vintage years have been considered that have at least 3 schemes available.
FY denotes financial year; for example, FY14 refers to period between April 2013 and March 2014
The total of DPI and RVPI may not add up to the TVPI number because of rounding off
^ Data pertains to the first half of the year, i.e. only those schemes that had their first close between April and September 2024
Values as on September 30, 2025
Schemes that have completed at least one year since their first close as on September 30, 2025, have been considered. In all, 406 schemes have been considered for the above analysis
Returns refer to post-expense, pre-carry, pre-tax values. Returns for more than one year are annualised
^Since availability of at least three schemes, i.e., June 30, 2013
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