The 2019 Preqin Private Capital Fund Terms Advisor is the ultimate guide to private capital fund terms and conditions. It draws upon extensive research and contains analysis, benchmarks, investor opinions, listings of funds and their terms (on an anonymous basis), and more. 

The 2019 Preqin Private Capital Compensation and Employment Review is the industry’s leading compensation guide. It details employment practices and compensation packages for 106 private capital firms and includes compensation data for more than 90 positions, 20 of which are real estate specific.

The 2018 Preqin Alternative Assets Performance Monitor compiles the alternative assets industry’s latest performance data and the analysis of more than 28,700 funds.

The 10th edition of the Preqin Sovereign Wealth Fund Review is the most comprehensive guide on sovereign wealth funds and their investment activity.

Spearheaded by CKDs, the options available to alternatives investors in Mexico are increasing, spurring industry and economic growth

Fundraising for these real estate vehicles is lacklustre as the industry awaits final regulatory guidelines from the US Treasury

As private real estate investment continues its relentless growth in Asia-Pacific, Preqin and APREA launch the most complete performance dataset ever compiled for the region.   

How Mexico is laying the groundwork for significant alternatives opportunity. Mexico has lately bobbled in and out of favour with global investors. Recent news media on the country’s trade debates with the US has broadcasted mixed signals on the economic policy of Mexico’s newly elected President A…

The natural resources industry has been struggling to generate momentum for some time. Since the crash of oil prices in 2015, even subsequent spikes in commodities prices have failed to generate much enthusiasm for the sector. Q2 has not broken this trend, with fundraising falling further and invest…

The real estate industry has been running slightly counter-cyclical to the wider private capital industry in recent quarters. While fundraising in private equity and private debt has been declining since the middle of 2018, real estate funds surged to their highest fundraising in over a year in Q1. …

Preqin's Mark O'Hare discusses the advantages and disadvantages of subscription credit facilities in the private capital industry today. Subscription credit facilities: angels or demons? A legitimate and valuable tool for managing liquidity and streamlining transactions in a competitive market, or …

India has historically been a non-traditional investment market, particularly in the case of real estate. Yet, there are signs that this could now be changing. The real estate industry in India is expected to reach a market size of $1tn by 2030, up from $120bn in 2017, and to contribute 13% of the c…

Our private capital benchmarks are considered an industry standard. However, with all that information at your fingertips, sometimes it can be frustrating to try and find what you need among the thousands of vehicles with fund-level performance data. This is why we have upgraded our fund-level priv…

The final instalment of our blog series, taken from our Don’t Believe the Hype whitepaper, looks at the different ways data is used and analyzed. Can You Repeat the Question?Once all the available information has been gathered, and moulded to give a fair reflection of the realities of the industry,…

To help alternative asset professionals conduct better company searches we have completely reclassified how we are categorizing businesses, and hve updated over 220,000 portfolio companies with more granular, in-depth information. NEW: Introducing VerticalsVerticals are markets that involve a group…

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…

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…