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Dec
Internal rate of return (IRR) and total value to paid in (TVPI) are without question key benchmark measures of performance for private fund managers. These performance measure have demonstrable value with each offering an important viewpoint for understanding a private markets fund’s performance.
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Sep
This blog post highlights how data-driven investors like New Mexico PERA can leverage TopQ+ to enhance their portfolio analytics for more effective manager due diligence.
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Aug
Fund Investor InsightsIndustry Insights Predicting Top Quartile Private Equity Performance “Past performance is not an indicator of future results.” A well-known, well-used adage in the investment world, but how applicable is it to top quartile private equity funds? According to a number of research studies on the asset class, extremely. One of the first [...]
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Aug
Analytics Best PracticesFund Investor Insights Client Case Study: How Desjardins outgrew the consultant model and enhanced their internal due diligence capabilities with TopQ+ by Andrés Ramos, Content Marketing Specialist - eVestment Private Markets This blog post highlights one of common stories we hear from Limited Partners: they need better tools to get to the data [...]
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Jun
Analytics Best PracticesFund Investor Insights Understanding Private Fund Return Concentration with Return Curve Analysis by Andrés Ramos, Content Marketing Specialist - Nasdaq Private Fund Solutions The return curve is a data visualization technique that, when applied to a private markets fund or track record, acts as a powerful tool to help identify how value has been created. It plots the percent [...]
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May
Fund Investor InsightsIndustry Insights Pension plans turn to asset managers offering TALF funds May 28th, 2020 by Andrés Ramos, Content Marketing Specialist - eVestment Private Markets The COVID-19 pandemic has roiled global capital markets across the asset classes and industry sectors. As many investors continue to assess the damage done, others are already going on the offensive, looking for opportunities to invest in [...]
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May
Fund Investor InsightsIndustry Insights Lessons Learned: An Analysis of Private Equity Deal Performance Through the Global Financial Crisis May 14th by Graeme Faulds, Director of Product – eVestment Private Markets What will be the lasting economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the private markets? This is the question on the mind of professionals across the [...]
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Oct
Fund Investor InsightsIndustry Insights Qualitative Due Diligence: The LP Perspective October 10th, 2019 by Graeme Faulds, Director of Product - eVestment Private Markets Our 2019 eVestment Private Markets Due Diligence Survey explored the importance institutional investors and consultants placed on a variety of their qualitative due diligence practices. The most important aspect of qualitative due [...]
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Jul
Fund Investor InsightsOperations Excellence How Institutionalized are ESG & Diversity Policies in Private Markets? July 19th, 2019 by Cameron Nicol, Senior Marketing Manager - eVestment Private Markets Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing is a topic that has risen in prevalence within the asset management industry in recent years, marked by a steady increase in [...]
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Jun
Fund Investor Insights All Eyes on Blackstone: The Public Plans Behind the World's Largest Alternative Asset Manager June 13th, 2019 by Cameron Nicol, Senior Marketing Manager - eVestment Private Markets Blackstone is a firm that is by no means unfamiliar in the media but the headline coverage the firm picked up in the last week [...]