Private Equity Valuation

NN-Group invests in private equity by participating in private equity funds as a Limited Partner. The company receives lagged quarterly reports on the investments made. Although this is the standard industrial practice, a lag in reported investment values leads to valuation risk. The LP currently depends on the GP for valuation and does not have access to the accounts of the private firms for performing valuation checks. In order to mitigate valuation risk and to have internal control of fair value measurement, we want to develop a method for timely valuation of private equity portfolios based on the data that is publicly available.