The 2019 Preqin Global Natural Resources Report is the most complete and in-depth review of the industry available. It covers a wide range of topics with key trends in 2018, historical statistics and survey results.

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

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…

Activity in the private equity (PE) & venture capital (VC) industry in Australia in the 2018 calendar year has seen higher levels of fundraising and investment compared to 2017. This points to a confident outlook for the private capital market, as both fund managers and institutional investors deplo…

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 …

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…

As ESG continues to grow in prominence in the alternatives assets industry, so too does the amount of conversation around it. Here, Preqin speaks to Beth Richtman from CalPERS for their take on the subject. There are many definitions of ESG in the industry– what does this term mean to CalPERS?For u…

Preqin is constantly looking at how alternative assets are evolving in order to ensure our data adds context, clarity and conviction to your decision-making. The use of subscription credit facilities (also known as equity bridge facilities, subscription line facilities or capital call facilities) by…

The next instalment of our blog series taken from our Don’t Believe the Hype Whitepaper explores the historically secretive nature of the alternatives industry and why the need for reliable and accurate data is higher than ever. An Opaque IndustryEven in the complex world of finance, the alternativ…

The US-China trade war, Harvard University and Brexit are just a handful of examples of news topics that have grabbed Preqin's attention over the past week. Please note, some of these sites may require a subscription to view the article. Stocks are plunging as investors try to anticipate the outcom…

IPOs have been the talk of the town over the past week, alongside hedge fund co-investments and why the biggest European buyout of the year has stalled. Please note, some of these sites may require a subscription to view the article. The biggest European buyout of 2019 has stalled New funds target…

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 as anyone in a data-heavy industry (and these days, that is most people) will tell you, it is never as simple as counting a complete and consistent …