Optimal Pacing for Private Assets: An Example

The FRG Private Capital Forecasting (PCF) solution recently released a module for optimal pacing.  Pacing refers to the planning of future commitments. Future commitments encompass a decision on commitment size as well as a decision on commitment timing. This is done...

How COVID-19 Could Affect Private Capital Investors

A new blog by Preqin explores what COVID-19 could mean for private capital investors. FRG and Preqin, an industry-leading provider of data, analytics and insights for the alternative assets community, partnered to develop a novel cash flow prediction model. The model...

Stress Testing Private Equity

FRG, partnered with Preqin, has developed a system for simulating cash flows for private capital investments (PCF).  PCF allows the analyst to change assumptions about future economic scenarios and investigate the changes in the output cash flows.  This post will pick...

Forecasting Capital Calls and Distributions

Early in his career, one of us was responsible for cash flow forecasting and liquidity management at a large multiline insurance company. We gathered extensive historical data on daily concentration bank deposits, withdrawals, and balances and developed an elementary...