Pacific Corporate Group’s track record is independently verified by Deloitte & Touche in compliance with GIPS reporting standards, which is unique among private equity investors, and expresses our commitment to the highest standards of performance disclosure and client service.
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Introduced in 1999, the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) are universal, voluntary standards to be used by investment managers for quantifying and presenting investment performance that ensure fair representation, full disclosure and apples-to-apples comparisons.
Recently updated in early 2005, the GIPS standards serve as the guidelines that investment managers should follow when reporting performance to prospective clients. The GIPS standards make it possible for investment managers around the world to “transport” their historical investment returns to other countries without having to restate these figures using different calculation and presentation rules. This not only creates an even playing field for firms but also gives current and potential clients more confidence in the integrity of the performance presentations as well as the general practices of a compliant firm.
The GIPS standards are administered globally by the CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity, the thought-leadership and policy-setting arm of CFA Institute. The GIPS Executive Committee is a committee of the Centre responsible for the developing, promulgating, and administering the GIPS standards. The Executive Committee has 9 members representing the key industry stakeholders and geographic regions.
The presence of local organizations to sponsor the effective implementation and on-going development of the GIPS standards is essential. Today, 28 GIPS country sponsors (and growing) provide an important link between the GIPS Executive Committee and local markets where investment managers operate. Country sponsors ensure that local interests can and will be taken into account as the GIPS standards are developed going forward. Compliance with the GIPS standards is voluntary, but support from the country sponsors help drive the success of the Standards.
The GIPS standards benefit two main groups: investment management firms, and investing or prospective clients (along with the investment consultants whose job is to evaluate, supervise, hire, and dismiss investment management firms on behalf of those clients).
By choosing to comply with the GIPS standards, investment management firms assure prospective clients that the historical “track record” they report is both complete and fairly presented. Compliance enables the GIPS-compliant firm to participate in competitive bids against other compliant firms throughout the world. The Standards represent ‘best practice’, provide significant internal controls and are an important way for the firm to ensure accurate and consistent investment performance data.
Prospective clients have a greater level of confidence in the integrity of performance presentations as well as the general practices of a compliant firm and can more easily compare performance presentations across different investment management firms. While the GIPS standards certainly do not obviate the need for other in-depth due diligence on the part of the investor, compliance with the standards provides a level of credibility to the performance results of investment management firms that have chosen to undertake this responsibility.
* The language used to describe GIPS is provided by the CFA Institute.
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