Quantitative Research

The Private Capital Return Barometers provide a data-driven, factor-based assessment of US private market fund performance, offering timely estimates of quarterly returns and insights into market conditions across asset classes.

The Q3 2026 Quantitative Perspectives: US Market Insights report examines how private capital markets are navigating macro volatility and persistent liquidity constraints.

The 2025 PitchBook Global Manager Performance Score League Tables identify the top fund families across 10 fund strategies.

This analyst note uses PitchBook’s Return Barometers to model how private market strategies might have performed during past stagflation, oil shock, and bubble-deflation episodes.

The Q2 2026 Quantitative Perspectives report provides a quantitative view of the quarter’s trends in PE buyout, digging deep into software, semi-liquid credit, and the rise of buyout megafunds.

The Private Capital Return Barometers provide a data-driven, factor-based assessment of US private market fund performance, offering timely estimates of quarterly returns and insights into market conditions across asset classes.

The 2030 Private Market Horizons report presents data-driven forecasts of global private capital AUM across drawdown and evergreen funds.

US venture shows signs of recovery, but capital concentration, muted exits, and sluggish distributions paint a bifurcated picture. See what it means for liquidity and valuations.

The 2025 VC Emerging Opportunities report offers a quantitative approach to the analysis of emerging technology verticals that blends bottom-up and top-down perspectives, with the goal of providing investors an objective way to compare risks and opportunities in early-stage startup investments across and within verticals.

The Private Capital Return Barometers provide a data-driven, factor-based assessment of US private market fund performance, offering timely estimates of quarterly returns and insights into market conditions across asset classes.

This analyst note leverages the new PitchBook Valuation Estimates to assess the current size and value of the US unicorn universe.

The Q1 2026 Quantitative Perspectives report offers a comprehensive view of trends across PE, VC, private debt, real estate, and infrastructure.

The Q1 2026 Allocator Solutions report evaluates whether venture capital improves portfolio outcomes by analyzing its returns, volatility, diversification benefits, and impact on portfolio efficiency.

The 2026 Allocator Solutions: Private Market Opportunities report explores recent macroeconomic developments from an allocator’s perspective, examining potential paths forward; the implications for private markets; and areas of risk and opportunity within buyout, venture capital, private credit, real estate, and real assets in 2026.

The Q4 2025 Quantitative Perspectives report assesses a mixed economic outlook, with slowing labor and wage growth, easing monetary policy, and improving buyout and exit activity.

The Private Capital Return Barometers offer a data-driven, factor-based view of US private market performance, providing timely quarterly return estimates and market insights across asset classes.

This analyst note introduces the Morningstar PitchBook US Evergreen Fund Indexes, an index family providing the first comprehensive benchmark framework for nontraded, evergreen private market funds.

The Q4 2025 Allocator Solutions report models how varying levels of private manager selection skill can influence portfolio alpha generation.