The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), a not-for-profit organisation committed to serving institutional investors of private equity, has released its latest set of Standardised Reporting Templates as part of its continued commitment to drive asset class best practices and support long-term partnerships between Limited Partners (LPs) and General Partners (GPs).
“As previously reported, this initiative is part of an effort to generate greater industry efficiencies, improve uniformity and transparency, and reduce expenses in administering and monitoring private equity investments,” says Tim Recker, Managing Director of the University of California Regents, and Chairman of the ILPA. “The committee responsible for driving this initiative has been consulting with industry leaders for the past year to develop templates that can be adopted by both LPs and GPs efficiently.”
The latest set of templates, which focus on quarterly management reporting requirements, have incorporated the comments received by the ILPA from its membership, GPs individually, from GP- CFOs around the globe during an ILPA-hosted roundtable event, the audit community, and from industry third-parties. “The exhaustive nature of this exercise was intentional in order to capture the views of all interested industry constituents,” says Kathy Jeramaz-Larson (pictured), Executive Director of the ILPA.
Jim Pittman, Vice President, Private Equity, PSP Investments, and Chair of the ILPA’s Reporting Guidelines Committee, said “It is encouraging to see GPs and LPs work together to create solutions that can only help strengthen the industry over the long term.” Mr. Pittman and his team have reached out to over 50 GPs directly to elicit feedback on these templates, hosted roundtable table discussions throughout the development process, and posted the documents for a comment period.
This concise set of guidelines is intended to aid sponsors of Private Equity funds in working with investors to create efficiencies in reporting practices, to develop standards that would increase transparency, and to allow for the sharing of necessary information for management reporting.
