These articles were published in our newsletters, distributed as featured white papers at conferences or developed for internal discussions and policy-making at the Burgiss Group. We publish them here in the event you'll find them helpful.

Valuation and Reporting Standards Update
There's much ado in the world of creating order from the chaos of private equity valuation and reporting. At the recent CFO Forum sponsored by InvestorAccess, the issue came up again.

Our View on Reporting Standards
Okay. We have a bias, but from what we can tell, no one has as much to gain from private equity reporting and valuation guidelines and standards as we do. We support all efforts whole-heartedly. In fact, we have our own ideas about how they could be accomplished.

Measuring Private Equity: The IRR
Presented at the Fall ILPA conference in Santa Monica, this paper presents an example-based explanation of the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) calculation. It not only discusses how the IRR is calculated but also breaks out some of the relevant assumptions, anomalies and limitations.

Benchmarking Private Equity Performance
How do you measure return on an investment in private equity? This article is from the opening chapter of our benchmarks module and should give you a flavor for its capabilities.

FOIA Wars Continue?

Massachusetts makes a move. (Private Equity Week).

Colorado protects portfolio company information from FOIA requests. (Private Equity Week).

Sean Harrigan of CalPERS (San Francisco Chronicle)