Research

Don’t Believe the Hype – Collecting Data in a Post-Truth World

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 issues that face companies seeking to gather financial data, and how their processes and assumptions can affect the intelligence on which financial decisions are made.