At a time when institutional research was largely offline and opaque, eVestment - in partnership with an alliance of investment consultants - launched with a simple but ambitious mission: make manager data more transparent, more structured, and more accessible. What began as a searchable database soon became a daily workflow tool for consultants and asset owners to evaluate institutional investment managers. 

As the platform gained adoption, it evolved into more than just a repository — it became an analytics engine. New capabilities enabled users to benchmark performance, run advanced screens, create reports, and streamline manager due diligence through a digital lens.

Since launching in 2007, Nasdaq eVestment’s Omni solution has helped asset managers streamline database marketing by combining technology and service to improve database population speed, quality, and confidence. Recent enhancements expand its capabilities to include qualitative data workflows, enabling clients to manage firm-, product-, and vehicle-level narratives, ESG and more—in one place. Today, our clients can manage and publish their content across 60+ databases. 

With compliance-aware change tracking and intuitive AI tools, we can help teams respond faster to internal updates, reduce manual effort, and ensure consistency across databases. Expanded support for private markets also allows multi-asset class managers to consolidate efforts, saving time and elevating the clarity of their story across strategies. 

As the asset management industry became more global, so did eVestment. Offices opened in London, Hong Kong, and Australia, and data collection expanded into markets like South Africa. This expansion allowed the platform to serve institutional clients with a broader, more diverse view of manager coverage and investment opportunities. Today, we proudly serve institutional firms across 50 countries. 

To support even deeper research capabilities, Nasdaq eVestment entered a strategic partnership with Mercer combining two powerful research ecosystems. The collaboration expanded global coverage and strengthened the insights available to the institutional investment community. 

In 2024, eVestment launched Peer Benchmarking, giving asset owners the ability to evaluate their investment approach against relevant peer groups with transparent data — not just broad universes. With access to insights across 20K+ institutional plans at a click, our goal was to empower asset owners across the globe to make smart investment decisions and confidently measure their performance against specific peer sets. 

Nasdaq eVestment today is more than a data platform—it’s a strategic engine for institutional decision-making and lies at the center of the asset owner, consultant, and asset manager ecosystem. With insights spanning over  29,000 institutional products from over  4,400 asset managers, and more than  1,200 institutional asset owners  across 50+ countries using the platform, we simplify the complexity of investing by delivering intelligence that’s both powerful and intuitive.

Our platform tracks over  $66 trillion in product-level asset flows, offering real-time visibility into market dynamics and peer activity and since 2016, we’ve added over 200,000 documents, 60,000 mandates, 20,000 recommendations and ratings, and 120,000 key contact profiles into the platform. By integrating seamlessly with modern tech stacks and leveraging cutting-edge technologies, Nasdaq eVestment empowers clients with one of the institutional investment industry’s largest global databases. 

And we’re just getting started.