Preqin Hedge Fund Investor Essentials

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The Preqin Hedge Funds Fund Manager Data set provides a view of all Fund Managers that Preqin currently tracks as active in this asset class. It also shows their Funds and the historic performance data for these funds (monthly returns and AUM). This data set contains more than 200 data points covering several thousand Fund Managers who are currently known to be active in Hedge Funds.

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This data will be of interest for anyone interested in tracking capital flows in Hedge Funds

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This data can be used for a variety of uses, including:

• Reporting and MI
• Fundraising and prospecting
• Market analysis
• Direct ingestion in a CRM

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Description	Value
Update Frequency	Daily
Data Source(s)	Preqin Pro
Original Publisher of data	Preqin
Geographic coverage	Global
Data Set(s) Format(s)	.CSV
Key Words	Fund Manager, GP, Fund, Historic Performance, Hedge Funds

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The full data set contains over 200 points, including (but not limited to the below).

Field	Description
FIRM ID	Unique firm identifier
CURRENCY	Currency the firm operates in
FIRM NAME	Name of firm
CITY	City firm's main office is based
COUNTRY	Country firm's main office is based in
REGION	Region firm's main office is based in
ADDRESS	Address lines 1 and 2
STATE/COUNTY	State or county of the firm's main office
ZIP CODE	Zip code/post code of the firm's main office
WEBSITE	Website of the firm
FIRM TYPE	Type of firm
YEAR EST	Year firm was established
ABOUT	About description of the firm
AUM (CURR MN)	Assets under management in local currency in millions
AUM (USD MN)	Assets under management in USD Currency in millions
AUM (EUR MN)	Assets under management in EUR Currency in millions
ESG TRANSPARENCY	Fund Manager ESG Transperancy rating. Derived by ESG Core Data Disclosed divided by Total ESG Core data points

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Field	Description
FUND ID	Unique fund identifier
FIRM ID	Unique identifier of the fund manager/general partner
NAME	Name of fund
VINTAGE YEAR	The fund's first year of investment/capital call
ASSET CLASS	Asset class(es) the fund operates in
STRATEGY	Strategy of the fund
PRIMARY GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS	The main/primary geographic scope of the fund
COUNTRIES	Countries that the fund will invest in
REGIONS	Geographic/economic regions that the fund will invest in
STATUS	The funds current status in its lifecycle
FUND SIZE (USD)	The fund size, denominated/converted to US dollars
FUND MANAGER	Name of fund manager/general partner
FUND STRUCTURE	The structure of the fund
DOMICILE	Location the fund is domiciled in

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Field	Description
FUND ID	Unique firm identifier
NAME	Name of fund
SHARE CLASS	States whether the fund is a share class or not
VINTAGE / INCEPTION YEAR	The fund's first year of investment/capital call
PERFORMANCE AS AT	The date to which the performance statistic is measured.
MONTHLY RETURN (NET %)	Percentage change in month-end NAV, net of management and performance fees
KURTOSIS	A measure of the ‘peakedness’ or flatness of a fund’s returns distribution, relative to a normal distribution.
SKEW	A measure of the asymmetry of a distribution about the mean return.
STRATEGY	Strategy of the fund
PRIMARY GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS	The main/primary geographic scope of the fund. Granular to continental level
FUND/SHARE CLASS AUM CURRENCY	Fund/Share class AUM based on the share class currency ---

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• [Data Schema] (http://static.preqin.com/assets/developerPortalDocumentation/Schema.xlsx )
• [Data Dictionary] (http://static.preqin.com/assets/developerPortalDocumentation/DataDictionary.xlsx )
• [Sample Implementation Guide] (http://static.preqin.com/assets/developerPortalDocumentation/ImplementationGuide.docx )

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