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Private Equity: Opportunities and Challenges Presentation to: CFA Society of Pittsburgh November 16, 2011 Eric L. Thunem Managing Director Portfolio Advisors, LLC Alternative Investments Hedge Funds Leveraged Buyouts g y Infrastructure


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Private Equity: Opportunities and Challenges

Presentation to: CFA Society of Pittsburgh November 16, 2011 Eric L. Thunem Managing Director Portfolio Advisors, LLC

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Alternative Investments

Hedge Funds Leveraged Buyouts S i l Sit ti Infrastructure R l E g y Venture Capital Special Situations Distressed Debt Real Estate Managed Futures Secondaries Mezzanine Natural Resources Secondaries Co-Investments Private Equity Funds Timber O h

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Private Equity

  • Provides capital to companies not quoted on a public stock exchange
  • Multiple uses:
  • Multiple uses:
  • Develop new products and technologies
  • Expand working capital

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  • Facilitate company growth
  • Strengthen a company’s balance sheet
  • Resolve ownership and management issues
  • Domestic and International Strategies include:
  • Buyouts:

Large, Middle Market, Small-Cap

  • Venture Capital:

Seed/Early-stage, Late-stage, Multi-stage

  • Special Situations:

Distressed Debt, Mezzanine, Multi-Strategy/Opportunistic

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Where Private Equity Fits

Company Growth Cycle

Early Stage; Entrepreneurial; Established; Mature;

Venture Capital

Development High Growth Level Growth Cyclical

Buyouts, Sub Debt Restructuring Special Situations

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Mostly Public

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Avenues for Investing in Private Equity

  • Start your own Business
  • Control, Management, Focus
  • Concentrated Risk
  • Invest in a Privately Held Company
  • Influence, Shared Ownership
  • Single-Company Risk
  • Participate as a Limited Partner in a PE Fund
  • Passive Ownership, Diversified Holdings

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  • Single-Manager Risk, Limited Vintages
  • Invest in a Private Equity Fund-of-Funds
  • Broader Diversification – Industry, Manager, Geography, Vintage
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  • Diversified Risk, Fees may Lower Overall Returns

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Perspectives

  • Entrepreneurs and Business Owners
  • Active Partners, Value Add, Liquidity
  • Ownership, Control
  • Limited Partner Investors and their Advisors
  • Returns, Diversification, Long-Term Horizon
  • Illiquidity, Perceived Risk, Lack of Information, Fees
  • General Partner Investors / Sponsors
  • Returns, Active Strategies, Timing

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  • Deal Flow, Fund-Raising, Exit Environment
  • Other Constituencies
  • Other Constituencies
  • Banks, Regulators, Politicians, Media

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Entrepreneurs / Business Owners

  • Private Equity Opportunities
  • PE managers can add value to enterprises
  • Potential source of expansion financing
  • Additional expertise in specific industries
  • Governance and corporate best practices

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  • Liquidity for generational transfer
  • Private Equity Challenges
  • Ownership changes
  • Control may shift
  • Leverage can become a growth driver

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New Companies/Small Businesses

* Headd, B. Redefining Business Success: Distinguishing Between Closure and Failure, 2002 # Shane, S. Startup Failure Rates – The Real Numbers, 2008 ^ Phillips & Kirchhoff. Small Business: Critical Perspectives 1989

* Source: smallbusinessplanned.com

Two years: 7 out of 10 Five years: 5 out of 10

Survival rates for new employer firms

(U.S. Department of Commerce statistics, March 2010)

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ve ye s: 5 ou o Ten years: one third 15 years: one quarter

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New Companies/Small Businesses

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Source: State of Washington, Department of Revenue, excise tax data 2002 through 2005

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Global Buyout Annual Investments

7 000 $200

Amount Invested ($billions) Number of Deals

6,000 7,000 $160 $180 $200 4,000 5,000 $100 $120 $140 2,000 3,000 $40 $60 $80 1,000 $0 $20 $

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 3Q11

Source: Thomson Reuters Venture Economics, October 27, 2011

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Global Venture Capital Annual Investments

18 000 $160

Amount Invested ($billions) Number of Deals

14,000 16,000 18,000 $120 $140 $160 8 000 10,000 12,000 $80 $100 $120 4,000 6,000 8,000 $40 $60 2,000 $0 $20

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 3Q11

Source: Thomson Reuters Venture Economics, October 27, 2011

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Limited Partners and their Advisors

  • Opportunities
  • Perceived out-sized return potential
  • Diversification
  • Long-term appreciation is possible
  • Programs may become self-funding
  • Challenges
  • Information is not readily available
  • Investments are illiquid
  • Risks can be concentrated
  • Measuring risk can be a challenge
  • J-Curve: returns may be negative in early years
  • Minimum investment levels may be high; access is limited
  • Minimum investment levels may be high; access is limited

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Basic Mechanics: Hypothetical Cash Flow

$400

  • $1 million commitment

$200 $300 $100 $200

  • $100

$0

  • $300
  • $200

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Annual Drawdown Annual Return of Capital

Years

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Basic Mechanics: Hypothetical Net Invested

  • $1 million commitment

$600 $800 $1,000

Cumulative Return ($)

$200 $400 $600

  • $200

$0

65% 80%

$800

  • $600
  • $400

65% to 80% Net Invested

  • $800

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Years

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Private Equity Performance: Time Horizons

30%

24.2%

20% 25%

9 4% 17.0% 10.3% 11.9%

15% IRR %

4.3% 9.4% 2.2% 6.2% 6.5%

5% 10% 0%

3 Months 6 Months 9 Months 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years 15 Years 20 Years

Source: Thomson Reuters Venture Economics, November 10, 2011. Data as of 6/30/2011

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Private Equity Performance: Stages

20%

13.4% 15.4% 12.8% 12 4% 15.1% 14.9% 16.0% 12 0%

15%

12.4% 11.7% 9.4% 9.9% 12.0%

10%

IRR %

5% 0%

All Venture Capital Seed/Early Stage Later Stage Balanced Stage All Buyouts Small Buyouts Medium Buyouts Large Buyouts Mega Buyouts Generalist All Private Equity

S Th R V E i N b 10 2011 D f 6/30/2011

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Source: Thomson Reuters Venture Economics, November 10, 2011. Data as of 6/30/2011

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Private Equity Performance: Vintage Years

21.5%

25%

16.1% 19.3% 17.5% 19.4%

15% 20%

RR %

12.3% 11.6% 8.0%

10% 15%

IR

6.1% 4.6% 6.7% 5.2% 1.8% 5.4%

5%

0.3%

0%

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Source: Thomson Reuters Venture Economics, November 10, 2011. Data as of 6/30/2011

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Importance of Manager Selection

10 Year Returns: Upper Quartile vs. Lower Quartile Managers 20% 25% 19.5% 15% 9.7% 9.4% 5% 10% 2.9% 0% Private Equity Large Cap Equity International Equity Core Fixed Income

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Performance Persistence

100% 24% 28% 10% 10% 22% 31% 70% 80% 90% 100% 27% 29% 28% 33% 50% 60% 70%

Q4 Successor Fund Q3 Successor Fund Q2 Successor Fund

39% 33% 24% 26% 24% 20% 30% 40%

Q1 Successor Fund

24% 12% 0% 10% Q1 Predecessor Fund Q2 Predecessor Fund Q3 Predecessor Fund Q4 Predecessor Fund

18 2011 Preqin Private Equity Fund of Funds Review

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Private Equity Investment Options

Investing through fund-of-funds can provide greater diversification

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Investor

Fund of Funds Fund of Funds

  • # f PC

250 t 400 1 2 Private Equity Private Equity Direct Investment A Private Equity Fund

  • # of PCs: 15 to 20
  • “Single manager” risk
  • # of PCs: 250 to 400
  • Lowest risk

Private Equity Fund Private Equity Fund

  • # of Portfolio Companies (PC): 1
  • Single company, highest risk

PC1 PC1 PC2 PC3 PC1 PC2 PC3 PC20

. . . . . . . .PC20

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Global Fund-of-Funds Annual Fundraising

Amount Raised ($billions) Number of Funds

200 250

$50 $60 $70

100 150

$30 $40 $50

50 100

$10 $20 $0 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 3Q11

Source: Preqin, November 8, 2011

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General Partners / Sponsors

  • Opportunities
  • Recurring management fees are possible
  • Long-term significant capital gains are possible
  • Investment strategies may involve active roles
  • Historically lower level of public scrutiny

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  • Managers may have some control over exit timing
  • Challenges
  • Regulatory oversight is increasing
  • Deal flow may not be truly proprietary
  • Traditional exit routes may exhibit volatility
  • Big payday may happen only after LPs get returns
  • Fund raising
  • Fund-raising
  • Competition

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Global Buyout Annual Fundraising

400

$350 Amount Raised ($billions) Number of Funds

300 350

$250 $300

200 250

$150 $200

50 100 150

$50 $100 $0 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 3Q11

Source: Thomson Reuters Venture Economics, October 27, 2011

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Global Venture Capital Annual Fundraising

1,600

$180 Amount Raised ($billions) Number of Funds

1,200 1,400

$120 $140 $160

600 800 1,000

$80 $100 $120

200 400 600

$20 $40 $60

Source: Thomson Reuters Venture Economics, October 27, 2011

$0 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 3Q11

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Source: Thomson Reuters Venture Economics, October 27, 2011

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Other Impacts/Influences on LPs and GPs

  • Overall economic climate

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  • Public equity markets
  • Banks and other debt providers

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  • Federal and state regulators
  • Media outlets; broad and industry-specific

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  • Politics
  • Perceptions

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Regulatory Environment

  • SEC, CFTC, FSA
  • FASB ASC 820 (formerly known as FAS 157)
  • Dodd-Frank Act
  • Registration if assets >$150 million
  • Extraterritoriality (non-US firms marketing in US)
  • Volcker Rule
  • No more private equity for banks (?)
  • Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
  • European Securities and Markets Authority
  • US firms with EU investments (?)
  • IRS – carried interest no longer treated as capital gains (?)

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  • Private Company Flexibility and Growth Act (proposed)
  • FINRA rules – ban on “spinning” hot IPO shares
  • Second Market scrutiny by SEC and FINRA

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  • Pay-to-Play rules restricting intermediaries in fund-raising
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Scanned Article

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THANK YOU

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