We provide an overview of the natural resources fundraising landscape in Q3 2018, which recorded the largest amount of capital secured in a quarter since Q3 2016. Energy funds are trailblazing ahead of other strategies, accounting for the vast majority of capital raised in Q3, and four of the five l…

For Q3 2018 infrastructure has recorded the highest quarterly fundraising total in the past five years, with a clear trend of capital concentration in fewer funds emerging. With more selective investors, managers will have to work hard to differentiate themselves from the crowd – there are currently…

We look at hedge fund asset flows in Q4 2018 by strategy, fund size, manager headquarters and performance.

We provide the latest hedge fund performance benchmarks for January 2019, including analysis for the past three years.

Liliya Kamalova from CalPERS talks to us about the pension fund’s ESG strategy specifically for private equity investments and how important it is for the future. In terms of your private equity investment portfolio, how widely integrated is ESG assessment and monitoring into your investment decisi…

China and India have traditionally been the natural choice for venture capitalists looking at investment in Asia. This leaves little room for other countries in the region to stand out. Despite its developed economy status, mature financial market and 127 million inhabitants, Japan has struggled to …

Next in our blog series taken from our Don’t Believe the Hype whitepaper, we discuss how best to model data and why too much data is not necessarily a good thing. Modelling the DataEven when all the available data has been collected and logged in the dataset, the work has barely begun. Raw data, e…

Infrastructure deal activity in the US hit record levels in 2017, and has continued to be strong in 2018, with 690 deals completed through the year. We contextualize these record levels with infrastructure deals data from the past 10 years.

Adages about lies, damned or otherwise, and their relationship to statistics are often used to imply a disingenuousness on the part of the accused. But it is never as simple as counting a complete and consistent dataset.  In this paper, Mark O’Hare, Chief Executive at Preqin, discusses some of the i…

As overall private debt fundraising levels have increased steadily in recent years, first-time fundraising has fallen to a six-year low. We examine first-time private debt fundraising statistics over the past 10 years.

We provide an overview of the private capital performance statistics from Q1 2018.

2018 was a difficult year for hedge funds, with market volatility and shifting investor sentiment creating challenging headwinds. Hedge funds finished the year with losses of 3.42%, the lowest return the industry has seen since 2008. This factsheet provides an overview of hedge fund performance, lau…

How important do you believe environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors – including diversity in the workplace – are to investors? Posed by an audience member, this was the final question asked of a panel of fund managers at Preqin’s recent breakfast seminar in New York, after discussing tr…

In this extract from our Don’t Believe the Hype whitepaper, we discuss the challenges of a lack of regulatory reporting requirements in the industry and how this can be overcome. Knowns, Unknowns and Known UnknownsAlthough most alternative assets industry participants have few or no regulatory repo…

Preqin looks at private equity-backed buyout deal and exit activity in Q4 2018, including breakdowns by size, type, industry and more.

The Q4 2018 Preqin Private Capital Fundraising Update looks at fundraising activity for the quarter across the private capital  industry as a whole, and in each individual asset class. It also examines the state of the fundraising market going into 2019.

In the second quarter of 2018, 22 private debt funds raised a total of $25bn, up nearly $0.6bn compared to Q2 2017 and up $5.3bn compared to the previous quarter. However, the $44bn raised by the asset class in the first half of the year trails behind the $49bn secured in H1 2017, indicating a sligh…

The number of unlisted natural resources funds securing a final close dropped to 19 in Q2 2018 – the lowest quarterly total recorded in the past five years. These figures highlight the trend of fewer, larger vehicles successfully raising capital, with the average fund size reaching a five-year high …