White Paper: Talent Blueprint for Private Equity Portfolio Operations

“Talent Blueprint for Private Equity Portfolio Operations” – Lancor’s white paper discusses the Operating Partner role within Private Equity Funds.

During the upswing of the last economic cycle, which saw global funds under management soar to $2.5 trillion, “best practice” in private equity embraced the concept of bolstering investment teams by hiring senior executives from the business world into portfolio operations groups. What began as a novel, sporadically deployed idea a decade ago has evolved to be an accepted feature of a contemporary firm’s toolkit. The thesis is that financial engineering alone does not maximize return, and that operational transformation across a fund’s portfolio companies is essential to success.  One managing director at a well-known pension told us, “We don’t have religion about what type of PortOps philosophy works best, but we do expect funds to have a story.”

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