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Private Investment Benchmarks in Partnership with Cambridge Associates
Direct access to quarterly Private Investment Benchmarks
Available now via digital feed
Licensees gain more coverage, regions, vintages, data and insights across index families
Learn moreReceive accurate, institutional quality benchmark data to make better informed investment decisions.
News: 2021 Q2 Private Investment Benchmarks out now.
For even the most sophisticated investors, measuring private investment performance can be challenging. Accurate performance metrics are therefore crucial to making your investment decisions. You need institutional quality benchmarks that you can trust.
Cambridge Associates, in partnership with IHS Markit, provides high-quality aggregate fund-level performance information to help you select fund managers, monitor performance, manage risk and identify investment opportunities.
Sourced directly from fund managers quarterly financial statements – Cambridge Associates Benchmarks are considered the industry standard for private equity, venture capital, real estate and private credit, offering:
- Coverage across various fund sizes, stages, sectors, and regions
- A complete suite of IRRs and by vintage returns
- Performance history on 2,200+ fund managers and 8,600+ funds
- Available via digital feed and the IHS Markit online store
Download the brochure for an overview of our index families and new digital offering.
Key benefits
Investment Experience
Benchmarks are built for investors by investors incorporating four decades of experience investing in private capital markets.
Data source
Benchmarks based on financial statements sourced directly from investment fund managers.
Breadth of data
Complete performance history from 2,200+ fund managers and 8,600+ funds.
Depth of Data
All major fund asset classes, strategies and geographies dating back as early as the 1980s.
Accuracy
Manager-reported performance numbers independently verified.
Benchmark calculations
Benchmark performance calculated on since inception history of quarterly cash flows and NAVs for each fund.
Industry Standard
For over two decades, the most trusted and widely adopted benchmarks for investors in private markets.
Representativeness
Indices calculated using institutional quality funds, defined as closed-ended, commingled funds that invest third party capital.
Understand the difference between the Online Store and Digital Feed
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| Internal and individual | Use case | Benchmarking, performance reporting, fundraising and marketing | ||||
| Six legacy benchmark reports formerly available on Cambridge Associates website | Product Offering | Five new index families that include all standard Cambridge Associates benchmarks, legacy benchmark reports and additional data fields | ||||
| No1 | Preliminary Data | Yes2 | ||||
| View Only | File Type | CSV (Excel) | ||||
| Quarterly | Frequency | Quarterly + preliminary2 | ||||
| USD | Calculated Currencies | 24 currencies | ||||
| WebViewer | Delivery | SFTP | ||||
| Per User (up to 5 devices) | License Type | Enterprise | ||||
| Credit card (per report) | Billing | Invoice (annual) | ||||
| No | Custom Indices | Yes |
1Single 1-quarter IRR update available once per quarter after 50% of the prior quarter's number of funds and ending NAV report.
2Daily updates of full suite of data after 50% of the prior quarter's number of funds and ending NAV report.
Explore the most recent Private Investment Benchmark Reports available
The index is calculated based on data compiled from 2,446 private equity funds, including fully liquidated partnerships, formed between 1986 and 2021.
The index is calculated based on data compiled from 1,684 funds, including fully liquidated partnerships, formed between 1986 and 2021.
The index is calculated based on data compiled from 2,077 U.S. venture capital funds, including fully liquidated partnerships, formed between 1981 and 2021.
The indices are calculated based on data compiled from 1,700 ex U.S. private equity & venture capital funds, including fully liquidated partnerships, formed between 1986 and 2020.
The index is calculated based on data compiled from 1,207 funds, including fully liquidated partnerships, formed between 1986 and 2021.
The index is calculated based on data compiled from 109 Australia private equity & venture capital funds, including fully liquidated partnerships, formed between 1997 and 2019.
Preliminary 1-quarter IRR calculations are available for all ecommerce benchmarks when at least 50% of active funds and prior period's NAVs have updated. All returns are calculated in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.
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