Private Equity Portfolio Companies: A First Look at Burgiss Holdings Data

This paper provides a first look at newly available data on the holdings of private equity (PE) funds. Because research has been hampered by the lack of comprehensive, high-quality data on portfolio companies, this new source offers the potential for a wide range of research. Provided by Burgiss, a global provider of data and analytics to investors in PE funds (limited partner investors or LPs), the data are gathered from the financial reports...