The Peracs PE Fund Due Diligence Analytics™ research tool provides a rich and robust fund analysis platform. It brings new level of quantitative sophistication to the private equity markets, to assist customers in making better-informed investment decisions.

This service leverages deal-level analysis unmatched in the marketplace and addresses the significant weaknesses of traditional IRR and vintage year analyses. This tool is based on a proprietary methodology, developed by research at leading business schools and tested by experienced investors in private equity. It consists of several key components:

• Benchmarks of fund’s performance against other comparable private equity transactions (as well as against public peers, and broader markets);
• Analysis of fund’s individual value drivers (revenues, margins, multiples, and leverage) to highlight the sources of value creation;
• Rich analysis of returns by dates, exit types, current status, industry, etc., which is useful for identifying the key contributors to performance;
• Return sensitivity analysis that brings the comparison of the performance of deals within the fund into stark relief, critical when assessing consistency of a fund’s performance;
• Cash flow pattern analysis (including J-Curve analysis) to determine the general partner’s ability to generate deal flow and realizations;
• Superior measurements of a fund’s historic returns, not just simple IRR and return multiples;
• Robust technology that permits drill-down analysis from the level of the general partner, to individual funds, and down to individual deals, providing whatever level of analysis is called for; and
• Beyond the historical performance outlined above, the tool provides assessment of new funds being raised by general partner.

Please contact us for more information or to arrange for a demonstration of this innovative tool.