Preqin's white paper Preqin Forecasts: A Technical Overview accompanies our new Preqin Special Report: The Future of Alternatives in 2027. It sets out our predictive methodology, showing how our proprietary, custom-built framework delivers a complete, data-driven, and granular overview of alternative investments market. It consists of two components: time series models which robustly generates forecasts for the values of key market drivers, and our dynamical system which simulates cash flow and the accumulation of capital.