About the report
Since the private equity heyday of the 1980s, when financial engineering ruled the playbook for this novel type of investing, a lot has changed. This white paper looks into strategies fund managers in private equity use to generate value.
Key highlights
- What makes private equity unique?
Private equity is a unique asset class, often distinguished from public equities due to the asset’s illiquidity. This illiquidity has a clear rationale and direct consequences.
- Private equity focusing on the fundamentals
In the wake of strong competition and rising valuation multiples, successful fund managers have differentiated themselves by focusing on operational value creation, as a more persistent and replicable way of creating value within their portfolio companies.
- Persistence in value creation
Whilst the persistence of performance in private equity funds is a highly debated topic, research has shown that only operational improvement is a replicable source of value creation as compared to the other performance components.