Volatile Markets and High Buyout Pricing Generate 82% Increase in Risk Analysis by Institutional Investors

NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Following massive deployment of Private Capital and recent volatile markets, CEPRES reports up to 80% increase in risk and fundamental analysis on their Investment Decision Platform - PE.Analyzer. CEPRES has seen a huge 60% growth in investment transactions during 2018 to $23 trillion of Assets across 63,973 private market deals from 6,032 Funds. With now the largest-ever transactional data on private markets, CEPRES clients can measure and stress test their investments versus macro-economic conditions to ensure they can protect against volatile market conditions.

There has been a strong recovery in private markets following the Global Financial Crisis. By harvesting the premium pricing in global markets, fund managers (GPs) distributed increasing cash to Investors (LPs) since 2009. Especially since 2011, when the cumulative net contributions reached historic highs, LPs gained more money in distributions than they contributed every year since. As a result, confidence in the private markets boosted, attracting more money constantly since 2013 – also driven by the rapidly increasing returns.

With recent market volatility, investors are showing concern by paying increasing attention to risk and operating company fundamentals as demonstrated by CEPRES activity. Reviewing analytics of 2,000 LPs, GPs and Advisory firms on their PE.Analyzer platform, CEPRES saw a 82% increase in analysis of risk factors such as loss rates, volatility and variance and a 58% increase in analysis of operating company fundamentals such as leverage, pricing and EBITDA growth. In the past this type of deep technical and fundamental analysis was very hard to achieve in private markets, but CEPRES has developed innovative technology and services changing the way the industry operates.

Commentary:

"There is a lot of concern about overheating capital markets, including private equity. Whilst it is true the levels of capital inflow should give investors pause for thought, the illiquid nature of private markets inherently provides protection in volatile market conditions. We recommend investors to be defensive and evaluate underlying investment risk and fundamentals in their current portfolio and when underwriting new commitments. In highly levered and priced markets as we see today, revenue growth and credit discipline are two important factors to measure for your investments. We are pleased that CEPRES can help shine a light on these topics and assist private market professionals to achieve stronger outcomes in all market conditions."

Mr. Christopher Godfrey, President CEPRES Corp.

About PE.Analyzer

PE.Analyzer is a digital investment decision platform for private markets based on advanced business intelligence of transactional data. Through customized and dynamic dashboards PE.Analyzer enables investment professionals to make faster and smarter decisions in private markets. PE.Analyzer offers solutions for Investor Relations, Due Diligence, Portfolio Management and Market Data.

CEPRES has built strategic partnerships with accredited industry organizations including the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) and the American Investment Council (AIC), whom themselves represent hundreds of leading and influential LPs and GPs.

About CEPRES

CEPRES is an innovative FinTech company helping investment professionals in private markets become stronger and achieve success through advanced BI tools, thought leadership and transactional Market Data. Through CEPRES, professionals can interact on a single, confidential platform in complete privacy to exchange investment data, gain deep market insights and forecast investment outcomes to enhance their investment underwriting and capital raising from around the world.

For further information visit www.cepres.com.

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