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Chart of the Month: February 2023
Halftime Adjustments: Taking Stock of Alternative Markets Returns in Q1 & Q2, 2022 Cobalt, a FactSet Company, recently published its…
Chart of the Month: January 2023
Alternatives in Private Equity: Examining the Smaller-Exposure Investment Strategies As institutional investors review portfolio makeups amid tight economies worldwide, we…
Chart of the Month: December 2022
The Crypto Winter of Discontent: Examining the Value of Venture Capital Tech over the Past Decade Cryptocurrency values continue to…
Chart of the Month: November 2022
On the World’s Stage: The Middle East & Growth in the 21st century The World Cup is set to kick…
Chart of the Month: October 2022
In for a Penny: Comparing FTSE Performance Against Various Private Market Geographies Last month, pundits boldly claimed that the United…
Chart of the Month: September 2022
Dialed In: Examining Capital Calls Across Varying Market Conditions As the United States just experienced its second straight quarter of…
Chart of the Month: August 2022
From Small Things: North American Venture Capital Compared to the Russell 3000 Last September, we did a study examining buyouts…
Chart of the Month: July 2022
MENA Reversion: The Roots of Current and Future Trends in Emerging Markets The recent break in the years-long trend of…
Chart of the Month: June 2022
Making Sense of Contrary Indicators in the Developed Credit Market As predictions of contractions in private markets begin to rise,…
Portfolio Monitoring Software: Collaboration Offers New Direction
Private market investing is a collaborative enterprise. There’s a lot of information sharing among staff within a general partner and…
Chart of the Month: May 2022
The Rolling Stone Gathers Momentum: Resilience and Investor Interest in Eastern European Markets Eastern Europe has come to the forefront…
What Every PE Should Know About Portfolio Data Quality
Data, they say, is the new oil. And just like petroleum, raw data needs to be cleaned and refined before…