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Why Using an Independent Valuation Firm Is a Best Practice for Funds By Murray C. Grenville, CEO, Sterling Valuation Group   Investment companies such as hedge funds and private-equity funds hire outside expertise like Sterling Valuation Group to provide independent valuations of the funds’ illiquid and otherwise complicated assets. They do this to reassure theirREAD MORE →

By Murray C. Grenville, CEO, Sterling Valuation Group   While hedge funds, private-equity funds, and other investment companies hire outside valuators like Sterling Valuation Group to provide a neutral third-party valuation of the funds’ illiquid assets, our reports are not audits or due-diligence investigations of the portfolio company. Investment managers hire us to demonstrate toREAD MORE →

Sterling Valuation Group CEO Murray Grenville was quoted in today’s Wall Street Journal article Fidelity Halves Its Ant Group Valuation After Beijing’s Clampdown Fidelity Halves Its Ant Group Valuation After Beijing’s Clampdown By Serena Ng and Jin Yang Updated May 3, 2021 6:15 am ET When valuing the shares of a private company, the committee considersREAD MORE →

Real Estate Valuations Remain a Challenge in the Current Market Whether values and returns will increase or decrease going forward is difficult to say at this point. Murray Grenville & Jeffrey D. Fisher | Nov 20, 2020 Price discovery in the private real estate market is always a challenge when there is a sudden change in theREAD MORE →

Will COVID-19 Result in Write-downs of Your Real Estate Investments? Jeffrey Fisher, Ph.D. Ron Donohue, Ph.D.  and Murray Grenville COVID-19 is causing havoc in financial markets as seen by declines in the S&P 500 as well as increased market volatility seen in the VIX.   The S&P 500 has lost about 30% of its value sinceREAD MORE →

For Immediate Release Sterling Valuation Group Opens First Overseas Office in Hong Kong Sterling Debuts Representative Office in Taikoo Place NEW YORK (Sept. 11, 2019) — Sterling Valuation Group, a pioneer in providing valuation of alternative assets, is pleased to announce the opening of its first overseas office in Hong Kong. Sterling provides independent portfolioREAD MORE →

Gaining Options Evaluate if real options will add real value to an asset By Murray C. Grenville and Richard J. Buttimer, Jr., Ph.D. | November.December.18 Investors in large, non-financial assets, such as land or factories,  frequently value them through a “real options” framework. But what are real options, how do they differ from financial options,READ MORE →

Hurricanes and Property Values: The Impact May Be Longer Than You Think Here are the findings from some number crunching by Sterling consulting expert Jeffrey D. Fisher and freelance analyst Sara Rutledge using data from the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) and the National Hurricane Center. Jeffrey D. Fisher , Murray C.READ MORE →

Welcome to the new edition of Sterling Valuation Group’s The Sterling Strategist! This newsletter is one of the ways we at Sterling strive to effectively communicate with our clients and colleagues. In this issue of The Sterling Strategist, I want to briefly touch on two topics: Venture Capital Investment Valuations The impact of hurricanes onREAD MORE →

To learn more, read the feature article from National Real Estate Investor, “Valuing Assets Post Natural Disaster” with Murray C. Grenville and Sterling Valuation outside expert, Dr. Ron M. Donohue.  Murray C. Grenville is CEO of Sterling Valuation Group, Inc., which specializes in valuing alternative, non-liquid assets for hedge funds, private equity firms, banks and other financialREAD MORE →

Welcome to Sterling Valuation Group’s quarterly Newsletter! The Sterling Strategist is one of the ways we at Sterling strive to effectively communicate with our clients and colleagues. To that end, you will also notice that we continue to enhance our website to include more detail with regard to valuing alternative assets and the innovative approachREAD MORE →

To learn more, read the feature article from Pensions & Investments, “Simplicity in Asset Valuation Models” with Sterling Valuation outside expert, Dr. Richard Buttimer, Co-Director of the Childress Klein Center for Real Estate. Murray C. Grenville is CEO of Sterling Valuation Group, Inc., which is a pioneer in valuing alternative, non-liquid assets for hedge funds,READ MORE →

Following the financial crisis and the enactment of Dodd-Frank, hedge funds and other institutional asset managers are increasingly engaging third-party valuation firms, such as Sterling Valuation Group, to provide independent valuations, particularly for illiquid investments, to assist asset managers in determining and reporting net asset values. While all of the asset valuations Sterling provides areREAD MORE →