Private Equity Research ? A Basic Need for Investors

Posted by Ankit Kohli on April 11th, 2017

Limited investment opportunities and growing capital inflow have made private equity an even more competitive industry. If you are an investor, you will need to be able to generate ideas, source deals, manage your portfolio, and have efficient ways to plan your exits to achieve sustainable returns. This is where private equity research can help throughout the investment life cycle. Private equity research firms aid investors and private equity firms by supporting their market intelligence and research requirements. With their help, it is easier to identify acquisition targets, investment themes, evaluate deals, monitor a company’s portfolio, and plan exits. Their solutions can help in investor management and fund raising, too.

Private equity research is conducted by experienced analysts who use flexible engagement models to support sector-focused and specialised private equity clients who want to expand or add to their research capabilities. Investors and large asset management firms can rely on experts in private equity research firms to optimise the way they conduct research, too. Leading providers of private equity research can help develop investment strategies by assessing market opportunities and conducting market landscaping. Target identification is possible with deal sourcing, initial screening, and profiling of companies, and due diligence is conducted by validating the investment themes and providing valuation support and strategic analysis. Benchmarking reports and on-going market intelligence are crucial aspects of private equity research to improve the investor’s performance.

Seasoned analysts who provide private equity research offer pre-deal and deal and post-deal solutions. Pre-deal solutions should help you verify investment ideas and hypotheses according to in-depth research on markets, investment themes, and sectors. Leave it to the analysts to take a top-down approach or a bottom-up analysis to find investment opportunities based on the market structure. With their help, it will be easier to acquire and analyse the information and determine if it is a feasible investment. Deals are validated to make sure that they are unbiased.

Private equity clients and investors can execute potential deals while keeping track of their portfolio through deal and post-deal solutions. At this point, private equity research provides financial valuation and modelling, and due-diligence support to ensure good insights on your investment targets. Analysts will monitor your acquired companies and their peers and industry to help you optimise returns and enable exit planning.

About the Author:
Pure Research Private Limited (Pure Research) provides customised research and business intelligence to leading corporates, public sector organisations, financial services firms, and professional services firms. The company specialises in providing high quality procurement and supply chain intelligence to CPOs and procurement professionals worldwide. Analysts from Pure Research work as an extension of its client’s procurement teams to deliver high quality insights on suppliers and supply markets. The company has offices in London, U.K. and New Delhi, India.