The Voice of Alpha · Since 2013
The full picture of the hedge fund universe, and the tools to act on it.
Unbiased, institutional-grade research, benchmarking, and due diligence for allocators and managers, across thousands of funds and $3T+ in tracked assets.
Credit +3.7%
Equity Diversified +8.2%
Equity Sector +13.8%
Event Driven +6.9%
Global Macro +6.0%
Managed Futures +9.6%
Vol Trading +3.7%
year-to-date · 2026-07
For Allocators
Build and defend your hedge fund portfolio.
Screen managers against rules-based peer benchmarks, run alpha/beta and cross-sectional analysis, and construct allocations on data used by allocators representing $650B+ in hedge fund investments.
For Managers
Know exactly where you stand.
Contextualise your performance against the right peer set with anonymized distributional analysis and accurate benchmarks. Constituent identities are never disclosed to allocators, to other managers, or to anyone else.
In their words
Already on the right path.
Allocators, consultants and academics who use the research.
PivotalPath has built an excellent mouse trap to evaluate our hedge fund portfolio and individual managers in the right context.
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.
Manager research, due diligence, peer rankings and qualitative metrics, in one place.
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Beyond the benchmarks
The research behind the reference.
The indices are one expression of a larger body of research — coverage spanning thousands of funds and $3T+ in assets, sourced directly from managers, point-in-time, and free of survivorship and backfill bias. The same data and analytics behind the benchmarks are available to clients.
Manager screening & due diligence
Source, evaluate and monitor managers against the right peer set — built from data straight from the source, not a pay-to-play approved list.
Benchmarking & indices
Free & public
Strategy and sub-strategy indices, on the Bloomberg Terminal and free to the public — accurate enough that allocators use them to judge managers in context.
Alpha / beta & risk analysis
Decompose returns into true alpha versus factor and market beta, so you know exactly what you are paying a manager for.
Cross-sectional analysis
Compare managers across strategies, exposures and market regimes to find who is genuinely differentiated and who is riding beta.
Portfolio construction
Build and stress-test hedge fund allocations using unbiased, institutionally relevant data rather than self-reported marketing numbers.
Peer & distributional analytics
For managers: show prospective allocators exactly where you stand with anonymized distributional analysis against your real peer set.
Intel & monthly research
Monthly performance reports and intel that contextualise the numbers and surface the trends shaping the industry.
Start with the data.
Our curated index library is open to everyone: current values, full history and methodology, with the raw series downloadable as CSV.