Operational Excellence in Private Equity

If transparency and disclosure is what our industry needs, then it’s time to level the playing field. Investors have come to expect unprecedented levels of operational data from their private equity GPs. In its 2015 survey of the global private equity industry, professional business services firm EY describes a new layer of criteria that investors have added as an essential part of their performance lexicon: operational excellence. What distinguishes private equity firms as best-in-class now goes beyond their investment returns to include the efficiency and effectiveness of their front, middle and back office.