Nasdaq eVestment™

eVestment offers the ability to integrate several third-party and partner datasets. This expanded data coverage provides a way to model together all of the different vehicle options available using one platform — the eVestment suite of Analytics.

Traditional Datasets

• Lipper:  By leveraging Lipper’s extensive retail mutual fund database, our clients can analyse more than 26,000 US mutual funds. Data points include current and historical performance and AUM data, as well as over 100 qualitative data points.
• Morningstar: Open-ended mutual fund data is available globally or by region including the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Japan and Australia. With over 200,000+ products available, you can be confident your analysis includes the full spectrum of data.
• Nelson Information*: Nelson offers monthly performance for separate accounts.  Also included is the performance data for mutual funds. The database totals over 23,000 investment products and provides over 85 peer group universes.

Hedge Fund Datasets

In addition to eVestment’s hedge fund datasets, we also support other third-party datasets through our analytics options including:

• Hedge Fund Research, Inc. (HFR): HFR is a global leader in the alternative investment industry. Established in 1992, HFR specializes in the areas of indexation and analysis of hedge funds. HFR Database includes fund-level detail on historical performance and assets, as well as firm characteristics on both the broadest and most influential hedge fund managers. HFR offers performance and qualitative data on over 7,000 hedge funds.
• Barclay Hedge: Barclay offers a growing hedge fund/fund of funds/CTA databases. On a monthly basis, they strive to provide subscribers with the previous month's performance for at least 90% of the funds that they follow. Includes performance and qualitative data on over 6,000 hedge funds and CTAs.
• Eurekahedge*: Eurekahedge specialized in a hedge fund database with a hedge funds list of over 23,000 across all strategies and asset classes.
• Morningstar*: Morningstar includes over 5,000 active hedge funds, funds of funds and CTAs across 36 strategies. Morningstar has grown its hedge fund database over the years through strategic acquisitions—InvestorForce Altvest, S&P’s Micropal and MSCI’s Hedge Fund & Hedge Fund Index business.
• Lipper TASS*: LipperHedge Fund Database offers quantitative performance data on over 6,300 actively reporting Hedge funds and Funds of Hedge Funds, plus over 14,000 graveyard funds that have closed, liquidated or stopped reporting for any reason.
• Hedge Fund Intelligence*: HedgeFund Intelligence is a provider of hedge fund news and data with information on more than 5,000 funds and comprehensive news and insight from across the globe.
• Mondo Alternative*: MondoAlternative, which was born from the ten-year experience of MondoHedge, is the first and only Italian multimedia provider of financial information entirely dedicated to alternative investments. Today MondoAlternative online and offline services ranges from Hedge funds to Real estate, Private equity and Commodities, thus embracing all the alternative investments segment.
• Hedge News Africa*: HedgeNews Africa is the most timely, accurate and independent source of information covering the South African hedge fund industry and the broader African alternative investment space. The company publishes a monthly online intelligence newsletter and a quarterly print journal, including performance league tables of the most comprehensive database of South African and African hedge funds.
• Cogent Hedge*: CogentHedge.com collects and disseminates hedge fund data for over 12,000 alternative investments - 5000 of which are currently active.

*Only available in PerTrac Analytics.