Private markets boom prompts new benchmarks, AI data platforms

The recent launch of a new suite of private market benchmarks represents another step in providing more transparency on valuations and pricing in the asset classes that institutional investors have rushed into in recent years. Financial index provider MSCI in late July announced more than 130 new private capital indices covering private equity and other asset classes, adding to the existing 80 real asset fund and property indices it has. “These indexes represent the net-of-fees …