INSEAD recently published Value Creation 2.0 which features Duff & Phelps’ Created Value Attribution Framework (CVA). The study, to which Duff & Phelps and several of our CVA clients contributed, addresses quantitative performance measurements of value creation in private equity. Authored by the distinguished faculty and directors of INSEAD’s Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI), the study notes that “Conventional frameworks neither provide insight into the underlying drivers of operating improvement nor corrects for broad industry performance.”
Key attributes of the framework, as recognized by INSEAD includes:
- Addresses a wide range of shortcomings in the attribution of value creation in private equity;
- Attributes investment performance directly to enterprise drivers of value creation;
- Isolates company-specific Alpha created via operating improvements.
