Calculations

General

Metric prioritisation
  • Extracted data points are always preferred over calculated data points

  • If there are duplicate metrics, they are first prioritised based on the report date being closest to the metric date.

  • If there are multiple metrics with the same report date, then the metric with the most recent extraction date is used.

Currency conversion
  • Uses Bank of England exchange rates

  • Valuation metrics such as Market Value and NAV are converted as of the date the metric is reported at

  • Transactional metrics such as Total Capital Invested or Capital Distributions are converted at the time of transaction and aggregated

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Portfolio

Metric

Calculation

Total commitment

Summed from all underlying commitments in the portfolio

Unfunded commitment

Summed from all underlying commitments in the portfolio

Capital contributions

Summed from all underlying commitments in the portfolio

Capital distributions

Summed from all underlying commitments in the portfolio

Market Value

Summed from the Closing Balance of all underlying commitments in the portfolio

RVPI

Market value / capital contributions

DPI

Capital distributions / capital contributions

TVPI

(market value + capital distributions) / capital contributions

IRR
(since inception)

Calculated using the same algorithm as Excel’s XIRR formula. The ending market value (as of reporting date) is used as the terminal cashflow, and contribution and distribution transactions used in the calculation can be configured based on your preferences:

  • Cashflows only - cashflow notice data only

  • CAS only - uses quarterly changes in contributions and distributions as approximate cashflows as of the quarter end date

  • Mixture – on a quarterly basis, reconciles the changes in contributions and distributions from CAS against the cashflows in the given period. Where possible, cashflows are used, with CAS data used as a supplement to account for any data gaps

Horizon IRR
(e.g. quarter, year to date, 1 year)

The starting market value of the period is used as the initial cash outflow in addition to the logic above

TWR
(QTR period)

(closing market value – opening market value – contributions + distributions) / (opening market value + weighted contributions – weighted distributions)

Where weighted contributions and distributions are the sum of cashflows weighted by the proportion of days remaining in the quarter. For example, if a cashflow occurs on the 27/09, it is weighted by 3/92

This calculation requires cashflows

TWR
(other periods)

We aggregate QTR values up to other periods such as YTD, LTM etc. based on:
(TWRQ1 + 1)*(TWRQ2 + 1)… - 1

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Commitment

Metric

Calculation

Unfunded commitment

Total commitment – capital contributions + recallable distributions

Cumulative cash flow

Sum of capital contributions to date

Change in Market Value
(for a given time period)

∆Closing balance – ∆capital contributions + ∆capital distributions

RVPI

Closing balance / capital contributions

DPI

Capital distributions / capital contributions

TVPI

(Closing balance + capital distributions) / capital contributions

IRR
(since inception)

Calculated using the same algorithm as Excel’s XIRR formula. The ending balance (as of reporting date) is used as the terminal cashflow, and contribution and distribution transactions used in the calculation can be configured based on your preferences:

  • Cashflows only - cashflow notice data only

  • CAS only - uses quarterly changes in contributions and distributions as approximate cashflows as of the quarter end date

  • Mixture – on a quarterly basis, reconciles the changes in contributions and distributions from CAS against the cashflows in the given period. Where possible, cashflows are used, with CAS data used as a supplement to account for any data gaps

Horizon IRR
(e.g. quarter, year to date, 1 year)

The opening balance of the period is used as the initial cash outflow in addition to the logic above.

TWR
(QTR period)

(closing balance – opening balance – contributions + distributions) / (opening balance + weighted contributions – weighted distributions)

Where weighted contributions and distributions are the sum of cashflows weighted by the proportion of days remaining in the quarter. For example, if a cashflow occurs on the 27/09, it is weighted by 3/92.

This calculation requires cashflows.

TWR
(other periods)

We aggregate QTR values up to other periods such as YTD, LTM etc. based on:

(TWRQ1 + 1)*(TWRQ2 + 1)… - 1

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Lookthrough

Lookthrough calculations relate to a portfolio’s exposure to underlying assets of its fund investments.

Metric

Calculation

Portfolio ownership

Closing balance / Fund NAV

  • Can be customised to client, e.g. use Fund residual value instead of NAV

  • Applied against total capital invested, total distributions, residual value, investment total scoped emissions

Change in market value
(for a given time period)

∆Portfolio-weighted Residual Value – ∆Portfolio-weighted Total Capital Invested + ∆Portfolio-weighted Total Distributions

Portfolio total value

portfolio-weighted total distributions + portfolio-weighted residual value

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Fund

Metric

Calculation

Cumulative cash flow

Sum of capital distributions to date – sum of capital contributions to date

Fund Residual Value

Sum of residual values from underlying investments

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Investment

Metric

Calculation

Fund ownership

Residual value / TEV (can calculate any of these metrics using the other two)

Total value

Residual value + total distributions
(can calculate any of these metrics using the other two)

MOIC

Total value / total capital invested
(can calculate any of these metrics using the other two)

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Company

Metric

Calculation

Default periods for EBITDA, EBIT and revenue

Unless otherwise specified, these metrics are displayed as LTM.

If the GP reports these metrics in different time periods, e.g. QTR or YTD, then LTM is calculated:

  • QTR values can be calculated by finding the difference between YTD metrics extracted in consecutive quarters

  • If a series of QTR metrics is available, these can be summed back up to achieve YTD, LTM, and other periods

Equity

TEV – Net debt (can calculate any of these metrics using the other two)

EV / EBITDA

Can be calculated if not already reported in GP documents

Net debt / EBITDA

Can be calculated if not already reported in GP documents

EV / Revenue

Can be calculated if not already reported in GP documents

EV / Net debt

Can be calculated if not already reported in GP documents

Entry Value

Taken as the value of that metric as of the entry date of investment. If a value is not found for the entry date, the value for the closest date within the same quarter is taken.

CAGR

(current value/entry value)1/n – 1

Where n is time in years between the entry date and the current date

CAGR is only calculated where n is at least 1

Calculated for all company-level metrics, for each investment into the company

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Leverage

Metric

Calculation

Leverage

Net debt / TEV

Weighted leverage

(Investment residual value/sum of investment residual values) * Leverage

If an asset has a zero leverage, then the residual value will not be included in the calculation

Fund leverage

Sum of weighted leverages

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ESG

Metric

Calculation

Total scoped emissions

Scope One emissions + Scope Two emissions

Note that scope three emissions can be imported, but are not included in this calculation as they tend to be far less direct and more ambiguous.

Investment total scoped emissions

Fund ownership * (total scoped emissions)

Portfolio total scoped emissions

Portfolio ownership * (investment total scoped emissions)

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