Preqin's online databases, publications and services are relied upon by over 5,000 customers in over 100 countries worldwide. These customers span the entire spread of professionals involved in the alternative assets classes:
- Institutional Investors use Preqin's Fund Performance data as a key part of their strategic asset allocation and detailed due diligence when investing in new funds. They use our information on new Funds in Market to help them identify new investment opportunities, and they use the Fund Terms Advisor to assist them in reviewing and negotiating terms for new funds.
- Private Equity and Venture Fund Managers use Preqin's Investor Profiles to help them connect with potential investors for their new funds. They use our Fund Performance data to benchmark their performance against their peers. They use Funds in Market to keep track of the market for new funds, and their position within it, and they use the Fund Terms Advisor to ensure that their new funds have competitive best-practice fees and terms.
- Placement Agents use Preqin's Investor Profiles to find potential investors for their clients' funds. They use Funds in Market to track the market and latest developments, as well as using it to prospect for new mandates. They use Performance Analyst as a tool for assessing their client funds' performance, and they use the Fund Terms Advisor both for setting terms for new funds, and for assistance in negotiations with potential LPs.
- Fund of Funds have a dual perspective on the market, both as GPs themselves, and as investors in funds. As a result, they use all aspects of Preqin's services extensively in the same way as both other GPs and other LPs.
- Consultants and Advisors are extensive users of Preqin's online and published products, using them to advise their clients on the attractiveness and returns available in different market segments, the track records of different firms. They also use Funds in Market to ensure that they are reviewing all available investment opportunities for their clients, and they use Preqin's Investor Profiles to prospect for new mandates and to give their clients the benefit of an assessment of the portfolio structures of other comparable investors.
- Investment Banks and Corporate Finance Advisors use Preqin's Fund Manager Profiles to identify potential acquirers for (or investors in) their clients' businesses, as well as using the services within their fund placement and advisory businesses. In their wealth management divisions they make extensive use of Preqin's Fund Performance data for advising their clients on strategy and fund selection.
- Hedge Funds use Preqin's Hedge Investor Profiles to target the most promising investor prospects for their funds, and to connect efficiently with them.
- Prime Brokers make extensive use of Preqin's Hedge Investor Profiles to find investors for their clients' funds.
- Infrastructure Managers and Investors both use Preqin's hard copy Infrastructure Review and the new Infrastructure Online service to keep track of the rapidly growing and developing market for infrastructure funds.
- Real Estate Managers use Preqin's Real Estate Online service and the Real Estate Review to keep track of key developments in the market for private real estate funds, giving them information on fund performance, fund raising, fund terms and conditions, and the investors who are most active in investing in real estate funds.
- Law Firms use Preqin's Fund Terms Advisor when they are designing and drafting new fund documentation, and they use the Funds in Market service and the Fund Manager Profiles for planning and executing their own business development plans and targeting potential new clients for their services.
- Fund Administrators and other Suppliers to fund managers and institutional investors make extensive use of Preqin's Fund Manager Profiles, Investor Profiles and Funds in Market data for planning and executing their own business development plans and targeting potential new clients for their services.
- Government Agencies, Industry Bodies and Regulators use Preqin's extensive market statistics for analyzing and keeping track of the latest developments in the private equity, real estate, hedge fund and infrastructure markets – globally, regionally and nationally.
- Academics use Preqin's extensive market statistics and databases for their research and teaching requirements.
In addition to these core customer groups, many other customers benefit from Preqin's unique and extensive data on the global alternative investment markets. Please contact us if you would like to find out more about how you can benefit from using Preqin's data and services.