Clients and independent research
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Allocators, consultants and academics who use the research — and what independent work has found about it.
PivotalPath has built an excellent mouse trap to evaluate our hedge fund portfolio and individual managers in the right context.
Tim BarrettChief Investment Officer, Texas Tech University System
We have reviewed countless sources of hedge fund information globally and found that PivotalPath offers the most robust analysis and representative platform of hedge fund returns in the industry.
Greg BrownInstitute for Private Capital, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Manager research, due diligence, peer rankings and qualitative metrics — in one place.
Matt AndrulotVerdence Capital Advisors
What the research found
Independent academic work on whether commercial hedge fund databases represent the industry accurately.
Independent researchers at the Institute for Private Capital examined 649 managers running at least $1bn. Of those, 125 large managers are covered by PivotalPath and by no other commercial database. Those funds generated 6.9% annualised alpha, on a seven-factor model, against 2.6% for funds visible only through the commercial databases.
Institute for Private Capital, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School — Brown, Lundblad & Volckmann, “What Do We Know About Institutional-Quality Hedge Funds?”, April 2025
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