Last week, PEHub had an article highlighting NY State’s fiscal year-end private equity returns. Whereas PEHub is unable to attribute the performance to any specific funds, Bison’s Investor Insights tool allows users to see where investors are putting money to work and how they are performing. Read the rest of this entry »
Big data is coming to the private markets. New datasets covering management, web traffic, media signal, fundraising, and returns are quickly being aggregated together. One startup that has recently made headlines is Mattermark. They use soft signals to quantify Momentum Scores for startups. In a recent blog post, they used this score to create synthetic portfolios for investment firms to see which firm had the strongest portfolio. This investor ranking caught our attention here at Bison since it allowed us to create a comparison with our Performance Score, which ranks firms based on historic fund performance. Read the rest of this entry »
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