Financier Worldwide (FW) discusses rethinking private equity value creation in 2023 with Corey Smith, Merrill Strobel Bohren, Kevin Cowherd, Dave Owen, and Ankur Sheth at Ankura Consulting Group, LLC.

Private equity firms typically invest in underperforming or undervalued businesses, then apply their management expertise to unlock […] The post How Private Equity Value Creation Works appeared ...

Since then, the contribution of leverage to value creation in private equity has declined while the importance of operational improvements has increased (Exhibit 1).

ITFM is a modern discipline focused on planning, tracking and optimizing IT portfolio spending to ensure alignment with ...

CEOs of private equity-funded companies routinely get five percent of the company, with the management team owning as much as 15 percent. The fund owns all the rest.

Neutrally Weighted IRR removes bias of deal size in IRR calculation. It is very rare for all deals in a private equity fund to be the same size exactly and therefore, how much is invested in each ...

Todd Fitz is a Director with The Chartis Group where he leads Value Creation Services within the PE Advisory practice. His career in healthcare spans over 25 years, 20 of which have been spent in ...

Organic Value Creation Takes Priority for Private Equity as Economy Turns — BDO’s 2023 Private Capital Survey 79% of fund managers and operating partners say asset prices will rise by ...

Many public companies are already following the private equity example by developing “dashboards” that track the key measures of business performance and longer-term value creation. Ideally, companies ...

Investors should note that interest rates are just one of many factors that GPs manage. NB’s views on value creation were outlined in its piece, Navigating value creation in private equity.

Creating Enterprise Value in Private CRE All successful companies and CEO's excel at creating enterprise value and are rewarded with higher stock prices and increased equity value.

But I saw private equity through the eyes of an outsider. As CEO of Aetna, I was a buyer of portfolio companies rather than a participant in the value creation process.