Private capital benchmarks

Power your investment analysis with premier private capital performance data

Preqin has been empowering global alternatives professionals for more than 20 years with reliable performance data and benchmarking solutions to help them benchmark performance, identify and evaluate new investment opportunities, and stay one step ahead of the competition.

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Why are Preqin Benchmarks widely used?

Extensive data coverage and timeliness

Leverage comprehensive private market performance data spanning 50+ years of fund performance across 140,000+ customizable alternatives benchmarks.

Reliable data accuracy

Inform your analysis and combat survivorship bias with performance data collected and curated by 500 research analysts using multiple sources, such as fund manager reports, LPAs, and FOIA requests. All data undergoes a rigorous verification process.

Complete transparency

Preqin Benchmarks are standardized and give you visibility of the constituent funds behind each one – enabling you to find the most relevant benchmark for your needs and demonstrate absence of selection bias.

Market credibility

We have pioneered methods of collecting private market data for over 20 years and enable 200,000+ professionals globally* to drive data-led performance excellence.

*Data as of February 2025

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Fund performance benchmarks

Access 50+ years of performance data to power analysis across the entire investment lifecycle. Leverage key performance metrics such as TVPI, DPI, RVPI across 140 000+ private capital benchmarks.

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Asset-level performance

Take your performance analysis further by utilizing Transaction Intelligence, a new solution that provides access to Deal Performance and Valuation Multiple Benchmarks. Analyze asset- and deal-level datasets across important metrics such as deal-level returns, entry and exit valuation multiples, net leverage, loss ratios, and operating statistics.

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Private capital indices

Get visibility of time-weighted returns to conduct meaningful analysis with private capital indices for each asset class and main geographies. Compare your private capital performance to key public markets indices, such as the S&P 500 and MSCI World.

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Benchmark fund terms with Term Intelligence

Term Intelligence is a benchmarking solution that enables you to compare LPA terms against the wider market. It gives you the data to compare economic and non-economic fund terms to a wide universe of LPAs, providing the clarity you need to negotiate with confidence.

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Greenstone

"Over the past ten years, we’ve evaluated every data-based system in the private funds industry. Preqin is the clear winner by a mile."

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