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PitchBook Unveils New Benchmark Product Providing Unprecedented Transparency into Private Fund PerformanceSEATTLE and NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, Dec. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- PitchBook, the premier data provider for the private and public markets, today unveiled its stand-alone performance measurement product, PitchBook Benchmarks. Leveraging a differentiated data collection process, PitchBook Benchmarks can provide unparalleled transparency into the underlying fund performance metrics and returns data used to construct each individual benchmark. This enhanced level of granularity is impossible to achieve with traditional benchmarking products, which report data on an aggregate basis due to contractual restrictions. With PitchBook Benchmarks, Limited Partners (LPs) are empowered to make more informed asset allocation decisions, while General Partners (GPs) can more accurately gauge and report the performance of their past and active funds. In addition, PitchBook Benchmarks are delivered in both PDF and Excel formats to provide flexible functionality and a streamlined workflow. The PitchBook Benchmarks PDF and Excel data packs are available for download here. In recent years, LPs have enjoyed an unprecedented amount of capital distributed back to them from both private equity and venture capital managers. Subsequently, much of that capital has been recycled back into the asset class with GPs across both strategies experiencing near-record levels of fundraising activity. As the private capital markets have attracted ample interest, the number of active managers across private equity and venture has roughly doubled since 2006. Given this growth, LPs have an unprecedented need for rigorous and transparent performance benchmark products to guide capital allocation decisions amongst the plethora of available managers and strategies. Furthermore, GPs need the ability to access that same rigor and transparency to gauge and assess their performance against the growing number of firms they compete with for LP capital. PitchBook Benchmarks were developed to address the need for deeper transparency as well as enhanced functionality within the tools clients use to measure performance. Traditional benchmark products report data on an aggregated basis due to contractual restrictions that limit their ability to showcase fund-level deails. PitchBook's unique data collection process is free of any such restrictions and thus, able to provide the underlying fund details and returns data that constitute each featured benchmark. Beginning with the nearly 10,000 fund vehicles PitchBook currently has returns information for, PitchBook analysts employ a rigorous five-step research process to qualify the LP reports used to calculate each individual benchmark. This process allows PitchBook to provide the most objective, reliable and consistently accurate performance data. Additionally, PitchBook developed its benchmarks with utility top of mind. Users are able to access PitchBook Benchmarks in both PDF and Excel formats, enabling the easy re-construction and use of data in any other performance measurement models. "There are more managers investing across private equity and venture today than we've really ever seen. So inherently, LPs are faced with a significant challenge in terms of finding and selecting outperforming managers in a crowded market," said Adley Bowden, VP of research and analysis at PitchBook. "Our benchmarks offer a two-fold competitive advantage for both LPs and GPs – not only can our customers access the underlying funds and returns data that constitute our high-level benchmarks, but also we've placed an emphasis on delivering that data in the most flexible and easy-to-use fashion." This new data offering is the latest in a series of Platform updates and dataset expansions made by PitchBook this year, underscoring the company's commitment to providing a comprehensive view of the flow of capital across private and public markets. Since the start of 2017, PitchBook has added 266,000 private company financials to PitchBook Mobile as well as 171,000 new European companies with financials to the PitchBook Platform. Most recently, PitchBook announced a new integration with Morningstar, increasing the PitchBook Platform's public financial coverage by more than 300%. The addition of PitchBook Benchmarks in the company's product portfolio will further advance PitchBook's positioning as the most comprehensive private and public financial market data provider. For more information about PitchBook Benchmarks, click here. About PitchBook Press Contacts
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