Meet the Cambridge Associates Private Markets Benchmark Calculator, a new tool designed to help investors make more informed decisions and bring greater clarity and deeper insights to private markets.
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Unlocking Deeper Insights in Private Markets
Private market investing is complex, particularly when it comes to benchmarking, and you may be looking for better ways to understand and assess private investment performance.
For over 50 years, Cambridge Associates has been a leader in building institutional-quality portfolios for its clients.
Cambridge’s widely adopted private investment benchmarks, built by and for investors, offer representative and detailed coverage of the private capital markets.
They serve as a tool to address a number of use cases.
Use cases include:
- Performance measurement
- Performance monitoring
- Due diligence
- Risk management
- Asset allocation
- Capital raising
For limited partners, fund managers and other industry participants, the benchmarks are designed to help:
- Measure performance
- Identify investment opportunities
- Support the fund manager selection process
- Provide data-driven intelligence to better manage risk
In collaboration with Cambridge Associates, S&P Dow Jones Indices now offers the Cambridge Associates Private Markets Calculator, an advanced web-based tool for evaluating private investment performance.
The calculator provides access to information on 10,000+ funds, all categorized by asset class, industry and geography.
Asset classes covered include:
- Private Equity
- Venture Capital
- Private Credit
- Real Assets
The calculator has functionality designed to customize analysis using filters for fund:
- Asset class
- Strategy
- Vintage year
- Geography
- Fund size
- Industry
- Currency
Performance metrics include:
- IRR
- Performance multiples
- Cash flows
- Public market equivalents
For example, the tool may help you identify the top quartile breakpoint for IT-focused U.S. venture capital funds.
Data in the Cambridge Associates Private Markets Calculator is built bottom-up, using cash flows and NAVs sourced directly from GP financial statements, and is available on both a since-inception and horizon return basis.
All data is subject to quality control by Cambridge Associates’ dedicated team of private investment specialists.
Now you can experience the flexibility of dynamic data modes and navigate between current datasets, both preliminary and published, and historical snapshots.
Looking to choose between the current quarter’s preliminary data and fully published datasets from prior quarters?
The data is just a click away.
We’ve designed the Cambridge Associates Private Markets Calculator to simplify report exports and streamline workflows, helping users:
- Quickly adjust criteria and run new analysis on the fly
- Access benchmark data and export to Excel or PDF
- Save, schedule and share previously created reports with updated data
Hundreds of pensions, non-profits, family offices and other private markets industry participants are accessing the insights that the Cambridge Associates Private Markets Calculator has to offer.
To learn more about the Cambridge Associates Private Markets Calculator
contact: index_services@spglobal.com
visit: spglobal.com/spdji/calculator
