Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), a business intelligence, data analytics, and research platform for corporate, academic and government institutions worldwide, has Preqin private equity data to its offerings.
As a part of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, WRDS enables comprehensive thought leadership, historical analysis, and insight into the latest innovations in research.
Preqin through WRDS provides private equity and venture capital data, giving WRDS researchers access to the industry’s most comprehensive source of information, including intelligence on hard-to-track indicators, private equity investors, deals and fund performance. It calculates dozens of granular benchmarks across different regions, industries and fund types. It also allows users to compile their own custom benchmarks, and contains a range of public market equivalent (PME) metrics. Preqin tracks private equity fund managers and investors, and holds in-depth data on their activities to provide insight on what is driving activity, and to enable users to determine potential growth opportunities and key players.
“WRDS is very excited to add Preqin to the platform,” says Robert Zarazowski, Managing Director of WRDS. “With so much activity in alternative markets, Preqin offers researchers tremendous insights covering firms, funds and individual investors. We know that Preqin data will be deeply valued by our global research community.”
“We are thrilled to announce this integration with WRDS,” adds Mark O’Hare, Preqin CEO. “Preqin’s mission is to improve the transparency and access to data of this notoriously opaque part of financial markets. Research like that being conducted globally is crucial to increasing understanding about the efficacy and efficiency of private markets. We are honoured to be a provider of private market data to support their research, and we are proud to be a part of empowering new understanding of how these markets operate.”
