In 2023, we marked Preqin’s 20th anniversary with significant improvements to our data and solutions that further help you make informed decisions at every stage of the investment process. These enhancements were driven by our continued commitment to expand our services – focusing on how we can serve your needs better.
The key product updates give you enhanced customization and search functionalities in Preqin Pro, expanded Preqin Benchmarks, ESG, and company data, plus vital improvements to Preqin data plugins.
Preqin Benchmarks are ranked #1 for the second consecutive year as the most used benchmarking tool and database in the Probitas Partners Institutional Investor Survey 2024. This achievement reflects our strong commitment to providing world-class benchmarking solutions and performance data.
Our data coverage is also continually expanding. As of December 2023, we have 56,900+ funds with performance and 13,900+ private capital funds with up-to-date performance.
If you would like a training session to learn more about any of our updates, please reach out to your dedicated Account Manager, or our Client Services team via email or live chat (available 24/5, Mon-Fri).
Insights
Market intelligence at your fingertips
Our expert team of alternative assets specialists published 100 blogs, 210 news stories, 15 factsheets and 155 research reports to provide you with critical insights into the latest industry developments, opportunities, and challenges.
In case you missed any of it, here’s the most-read content from 2023:
Private Equity and Venture Capital in Greater China 2023: Preqin Territory Guide
Greater China Private Equity and Venture Capital Benchmark Report
Persistency in Alternative Asset Strategies: Real Estate Opportunistic
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Product updates
Power your investment process with the latest enhancements to Preqin solutions
Enhance your asset allocation with timely data
Drive in-depth analysis and compare private equity performance to other asset classes and fund types with Preqin Private Capital Quarterly Indices, now updated with Q3 2023 data.
Evaluate trends in asset pricing with expanded Valuation Multiples Benchmarks datasets
Gain a richer understanding of individual assets and valuation trends with new operational metrics added to Valuation Multiples Benchmarks, including revenue, net debt, revenue growth, EBITDA, and holding period. Valuation Multiples Benchmarks now also include realized entry and realized exit that can be compared across strategies, geographies, and industries for a more comprehensive analysis.
Learn more about Valuation Multiples Benchmarks
Expand performance analysis of real estate and infrastructure deals
Enhance your due diligence and performance analysis with the newly expanded Deal Performance Benchmarks datasets, now including real estate and infrastructure asset classes. Strategy and industry filters are also updated to include these, allowing for a deeper analysis of class-specific strategies. Deal Performance Benchmarks give you a greater understanding of the factors driving performance by highlighting returns generated by specific deal types, sectors, and geographies over time.
Streamline your workflow with updated Excel templates
Take the heavy lifting out of building tear sheets in Excel with our improved template library, available with the Preqin for Excel plugin. Choose from fully customizable pre-built templates for fund manager profiles and save time not having to build them from scratch.
Determine the likelihood of a liquidity event with Actionability Signal for buyouts
Power your direct and co-investing strategies with Actionability Signal for buyouts, now available on Preqin Pro via Company Search. With this new feature, you can quickly and easily get an indication of whether a company held in private equity buyout funds is likely to be sold within the next 12 to 18 months. Using the full history of buyout deals and exit data in Preqin’s database, Actionability Signal measures the time interval between each private company’s buyout and its exit within each region and sector to determine the likelihood of a liquidity event.
Discover actionable companies at a glance
Boost your direct and co-investing activities by easily filtering your Company Search results to identify actionable companies. All actionable assets are tagged with a green icon for easy screening, powered by the Actionability Signal feature.
Save time with improved automation in Preqin for Salesforce plugin
Easily sync Preqin data in your Salesforce CRM with the updated Preqin for Salesforce plugin. Reports now reflect the most up-to-date Preqin data without a need for manual updates, ensuring you always have the latest data at your fingertips.
Access fund manager data via the Preqin for Salesforce plugin
Enhance your manager screening and portfolio monitoring activities with fund manager firm data, including firm overview with location, background, and contact details. Access fund manager contact information with their job title, location, phone number, email, and preferred method of contact to streamline your inbound screening. Gain access to asset-class-specific information to see an allocation breakdown of the asset classes managers are active in, including the number of funds managed in the past 10 years, the estimated dry powder and AUM, and their strategies for the next 12 months.
Learn more about Preqin for Salesforce
Easily integrate ESG data into your investment process
Incorporate ESG criteria in your performance analysis
Enhance your financial performance analysis of ESG-labeled funds with a new ‘ESG fund label’ filter in the private capital performance search. Easily filter and access performance data on over 200 ESG-labeled funds, including 94 impact funds. Compare ESG funds to non-ESG funds and create custom benchmarks to better assess performance. Identify ESG-labeled funds aligned to your sustainability goals by using the new 'All Filters' option under the ‘By ESG’ fund search tab. Narrow down fund search results with ESG and non-ESG specific filters, in one seamless experience.
Easily identify companies aligned with your ESG strategy
Use Company Search to quickly identify companies that align with your goals based on their ESG risk exposure, ESG company metrics, and impact potential. Enhance your capital deployment with these additional ESG filters, including risk exposure estimates, SASB factors, carbon, water, and employee metrics, as well as the likelihood of positive impact.
Streamline partner discovery with upgraded ESG Affiliations
Quickly and easily assess firms’ sustainability commitment levels with the latest enhancements to our ESG Affiliations dataset. Our platform tracks over 40 ESG affiliations for 60,000+ investors and fund managers in the alternatives market. Now with additional information on the strictness of requirements, related themes, who can join them, and the percentage of firms within each affiliation, our data helps you find partners whose sustainability objectives align with yours.
Surface relevant information with customizable ESG fund search results
Personalize your ESG search results with the new ‘Manage columns’ button. This new functionality gives you the flexibility to add or remove columns in the ESG search results table, so you only see the information most relevant to you. You can export the customized table into Excel, ensuring you get the exact fund information you need when sourcing new business partners. Keep track of the ESG funds and fund managers of interest by creating custom target lists in ESG Search. You can also set up email alerts so you never miss an opportunity.
View the most recent ESG-labeled funds within the new ESG dashboard
Be the first to know about the latest ESG-labeled fund launches with the new ‘ESG’ tab located on your Preqin dashboard. This tab features 20 of the most recent ESG-labeled funds and gives you quick, direct access to their profiles – greatly supporting your fund manager selection and due diligence. Get a preview of fund status, strategy, asset class, and geographic focus by hovering your cursor over funds of interest.
Track your peers’ past ESG investments
Inform your fund sourcing by identifying ESG-labeled funds – such as climate, impact, SFDR articles 8 & 9, and Sharia, plus women-led and minority-led firms – that your fellow LPs have previously invested in. See how your peers incorporate sustainability strategies into their investment decisions, based on their past investment behavior. Using this knowledge, you can enhance not only your current fund sourcing activities, but also your upcoming activities by analyzing the past investment activity of your peers on similar funds.
Learn more about ESG solutions
Data coverage
Delivering more essential data to our clients every year
We’re always expanding and enhancing our datasets to maximize their value to you, and in 2023 we made some significant strides to improve our data coverage in many key areas.
22,800+ new funds were added, including 13,500+ in private equity to ensure our in-depth fund data continues to help you find funds that align with your investment strategy.
Our global research team reviewed over 1,029,400+ total contacts, including 495,800+ fund manager contacts, maximizing your chances of a successful outreach with more up-to-date information on key personnel, including their contact details and preferred method of contact.
2023 saw 2,000+ private capital funds with up-to-date performance data added to Preqin Pro, bringing our total coverage to 14,000+ private capital funds. Preqin’s global coverage now includes commitment data for 58,800+ fund managers across 160+ countries.
Plus, as of January 2024, we have over 55,200 funds with fund terms data listed.
5,800+ | 22,800+ | 1mn+ | 2,000+ | 58,800+ |
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