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Chart of the Month: August 2022
From Small Things: North American Venture Capital Compared to the Russell 3000 Last September, we did a study examining buyouts…
Chart of the Month: July 2022
MENA Reversion: The Roots of Current and Future Trends in Emerging Markets The recent break in the years-long trend of…
Chart of the Month: June 2022
Making Sense of Contrary Indicators in the Developed Credit Market As predictions of contractions in private markets begin to rise,…
Portfolio Monitoring Software: Collaboration Offers New Direction
Private market investing is a collaborative enterprise. There’s a lot of information sharing among staff within a general partner and…
Chart of the Month: May 2022
The Rolling Stone Gathers Momentum: Resilience and Investor Interest in Eastern European Markets Eastern Europe has come to the forefront…
What Every PE Should Know About Portfolio Data Quality
Data, they say, is the new oil. And just like petroleum, raw data needs to be cleaned and refined before…
User-Centric Product Dev: Cobalt’s Approach
Cobalt is an industry-leading FinTech company for more than just its technology. At Cobalt, we believe that when we listen…
Chart of the Month: April 2022
The Suspension Bridge Loan: Examining European Credit Contributions Given the recent turmoil in Europe, we wanted to examine how the…
Chart of the Month: March 2022
Road Repair: A Comparative Study of Regional Infrastructure Investment This month’s chart takes a closer look at the infrastructure landscape…
Chart of the Month: February 2022
Outsized: Examining Three Index Returns Since 2009 with a Fund Size Factor This month’s chart takes a slightly different approach…
Trustworthy Data: 5 Strategies for GPs
As private capital managers build more sophisticated technology that enables data-driven decisions, nothing is more disheartening than finding that the…
Chart of the Month: January 2022
New Year, New Trends: NAV vs. Dry Powder Over the Past Quarter Century A New Year is the time for…