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Date News   August 2010 On August 13, Financial Times published "Doubt cast over private equity returns record", an article covering a new academic study performed by Prof. Oliver Gottschalg on the true and false reasons to invest in private equity. The full report provides background on the benchmarking methodology, which is based on the same method as PERACS Due Diligence Analytics.     July 2010 On July 1, Private Equity Online published “Low-plains drifters", an article covering Peracs’ research on the performance divergence between focused and unfocused private equity firms.     June 2010 On June 27, Financial Times published "Buy-out managers add value", an article covering a new academic study conducted by the London Business School and HEC in Paris, with the support of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and anonymised fund data provided by Pantheon, which finds that Alpha contributes nearly 5% to the performance of the funds analyzed. The full report provides background on the benchmarking methodology, which is based on the same method as PERACS Due Diligence Analytics.     May 2010 On May 17, Private Equity News published "Club Deals Serve Up Mixed Results", an article discussing Peracs' research on the historic performance of Club Deals.     April 2010 On April 26, The Wall Street Journal has published "The HEC-Dow Jones Private Equity Fitness Rankings", an analysis of the 25 PE Firms that are best positioned to generate strong long-term performance going forward. It evaluates each firm’s competitive positioning based on 10 different empirically validated criteria and then derives an overall future competitiveness score based on the historic link between firm performance and each of these criteria. Please watch the HEC video interview with background information. For a discussion of the methodology, please refer to the full research report.     April 2010 On April 2nd on The New York Times conducted an interview with Professor Gottschalg for the article "Pension Funds Still Waiting for Big Payoff From Private Equity", published on April 2, 2010.     November 2009 The Wall Street Journal has published "Big Isn't Best in Private Equity", an analysis of Professor Gottschalg's report "The 2009 Gottschalg-HEC Private Equity Performance Ranking". This research, performed by Professor Gottschalg at HEC, and sponsored by Peracs, identifies the top 10 performers in private equity.     November 2009 Private Equity International published “The Peracs Private Barometer Q3 2009". The Peracs Private Equity Barometer™ is an index of private equity performance based upon broad macroeconomic indicators. For a discussion of the methodology, please refer to our July 2008 article.     October 2009 Peracs, in conjunction with the Buyout Research Program, has published a research brief, “The Real-World Limitations of Private Equity Performance Persistence”.     August 2009 peHUB published an analysis of the Private Equity Online article, “Study: 77% of GPs could claim top quartile status", which discusses some of Peracs' research. peHUB subscribers can access the article here. The original Private Equity Online article is available here.     July 2009 Private Equity Online published “Study: 77% of GPs could claim top quartile status", an article discussing some of Peracs' research.     March 2009 Private Equity International published “The Peracs Private Barometer Q1 2009". The Peracs Private Equity Barometer™ is an index of private equity performance based upon broad macroeconomic indicators. Our analysis suggests that there is reason for optimism in today's private equity markets. For a discussion of the methodology, please refer to our July 2008 article.     February 2009 Private Equity Mathematics: Oliver Gottschalg has edited a book, Private Equity Mathematics, on private equity quantitative methods, published by Private Equity International. This is available for sale at PEI Media Publications.     February 2009 The Buyout Research Program has published a research brief, “Why More Than 25% of Funds Claim Top Quartile Performance”.     November 2008 Harvard Business Review (vol. 86, n° 11, pp. 26-27) has published “Do Politics Shape Buyout Performance”.     July 2008 Private Equity International published “Better Than Expected” in their “Performance” column. This article discusses the Peracs Private Equity Barometer™.     June 2008 Our founder, Oliver Gottschalg, participated on a panel, Raising Fund “x”: Trends in Private Equity Fundraising and Fund Evaluation, part of the 59 Minutes series sponsored by Broadgate Consultants. This session was held at the Yale Club in New York City. See a transcript of the panel here.     May 2008 We contributed to an article in Les Echos about the myths and realities in private equity (in French).     May 2008 We contributed to an article in Les Echos regarding the comparative performance of private equity versus public markets (in French).     April 2008 Le Monde published article about our study “Private Equity and Leveraged Buy-Out” (in French).     April 2008 die bank published Peracs report, “Private equity in Europe: Correcting a distorted picture”.     March 2008 L’Agefi interviewed Oliver Gottschalg, discussing European leveraged buy-out research that he conducted for the European Parliament (in French).     February 2008 Private Equity International published describing the Peracs’ PE Due Diligence Analytics™. Feel free to review the full report.     December 2007 The Harvard Business Review (vol. 85, n° 12, pp. 17-20) published “Truth About Private Equity Performance”. The full article is available here.     November 2007 Peracs’ report, “EU Parliament Report on Buyouts” (available here), was reported in business press including the Financial Times (in English) and FAZ (in German).     July 2007 The Economist references Peracs’ work here.     May 2007 Read more about Peracs’ private equity fund selection criteria and their efficiency in Picking Winners as published in Private Equity International, Issue 55.     May 2007 Private Equity International publishes article, “Quantitative Private Equity Fund Due Diligence: Possible Selection Criteria and their Efficiency”.     April 2007 The Financial Times published article referencing Peracs: “Performance of Private Equity Funds” by Prof. Josh Lerner of the Harvard Business School.     April 2007 Private Equity International publishes article “Private Equity Fees – More than meets the eye …”.     March 2007 The Financial Times published reference to Peracs and its methods in “Take a good look inside the crock of gold” by John Authers.     February 2007 Reference to research on private equity fund performance in “Private equity investment to soar in Japan” by James Mawson.     February 2007 Reference to research on fees of private equity funds and to research on private equity fund performance in ‘Breaking Views’ Column by Edward Chancellor.     January 2007 Private Equity International publishes article “Comparing PE Returns to the Stock Markets: What we know and what we do not know”.