The industry’s largest selection of fund performance benchmarks

Inform your analysis with the market’s most trusted, comprehensive, and representative fund performance benchmarks. Our benchmarks are developed across combinations of vintage, geographic focus, strategy, and fund to enable automatic quartile assignment of 14,200+ funds with performance data. These include the only ESG fund performance benchmarks available in the market, covering seven ESG labels across six asset classes.

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The most comprehensive fund performance data coverage

The Preqin Difference

Robust methodology

Access private capital benchmarks powered by 20+ years of industry expertise and a robust methodology.

Data transparency

Obtain complete visibility of the constituent funds behind every benchmark.

Enhanced coverage

Leverage performance data spanning 50+ years across 140,000+ alternative benchmarks.

Reliable accuracy

Rely on data collected and curated by 500+ research analysts to conduct data-driven analysis.

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Create unlimited custom benchmarks

Generate unique insights, extract key benchmark data, and compare a broad spectrum of performance metrics with unlimited custom benchmarks. Choose a unique group of funds and easily compare your fund's performance against peers or competitors.

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Compare multiple benchmarks at once

Evaluate the performance of any private capital fund against multiple benchmarks side-by-side with Preqin’s benchmark compare tool. Easily create more persuasive, data-driven reports and seamlessly download your analysis into a range of formats.

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Analyze the J-curve trajectory and cash flow momentum of benchmark groups

Access reliable track records of funds’ cash flow pacing behavior and return trajectories to understand how much and how quickly capital is typically called and returned for a particular strategy or fund manager.

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Review performance of a fund strategy or geographic focus over time

Use horizon internal rate of returns (IRRs) to measure the momentum in a fund or your own portfolio. Compare a fund's horizon IRR to its inception IRR to determine the impact of a defined time period on the fund's performance.

Visualize the risk-return profiles of private capital benchmarks

Analyze and easily compare the risk-return profile of different strategies and create customized visualizations for presentations.

Investors can compare the risk-return profile of different strategies to make the best allocation decisions.
Service providers can advise clients on the risk-return relationship of private capital investments and determine suitable investment decisions.
Fund managers can support fund marketing by illustrating how a fund type's risk-return profile compares with others.