About

About

Empowering institutional investors with valuable insights and the necessary tools.

PivotalPath enables clients with the full cycle of hedge fund investment due diligence, through its intelligence reports, analytics and performance analysis tools.

2013
Founded, New York
$3T+
Research assets
$650B+
Client investments

Why PivotalPath

Harnessing our research portal, PivotalPath provides a diverse set of institutional investors — with over $650 billion in combined hedge fund investments — with valuable insights and the necessary tools for all hedge fund investment decisions.

Our dedicated research team has built trust and lasting partnerships with both allocators and hedge funds, providing transparency and ensuring that clients can always evaluate each manager in the right context. PivotalPath protects confidential manager information and only shares insights with its institutional investor clients.

Data
Quality and structure of hedge fund data, straight from the source.
Relationships
Trusted partnerships with institutionally relevant hedge fund managers.
Research
Unbiased research and transparency, rather than an approved set of managers.
Indices
Accurate indices and meaningful benchmarks.
Access
Easy access to intelligence and manager screening tools.
Service
Custom solutions and responsiveness.

How many managers PivotalPath covers →

What we do

Three things, on one dataset.

Allocators
Performance analytics, manager screening, benchmarking and portfolio construction, on point-in-time data sourced directly from managers.
Managers
Contextual analysis against an anonymized distribution of the appropriate strategy class — standing, placement and edge reports, and private sleeves nobody else can see.
Indices
Rules-based hedge fund indices, published free, with the full construction methodology open to anyone.

Unbiased hedge fund benchmarks and research.

Team

Decades of combined experience as hedge fund practitioners, allocators and software developers.

Jonathan CaplisChief Executive OfficerLinkedIn →
Steven SchneiderChief Operating OfficerLinkedIn →
Jesse TeitelInstitutional Sales DirectorLinkedIn →
Gwyn RobertsHead of Manager RelationsLinkedIn →
Florin Spinu PhDChief Technical Product ManagerLinkedIn →

Board of Directors

A global network of sophisticated investors, academics and C-level executives.

Jonathan CaplisChief Executive Officer of PivotalPath
Jackie DarrChief Operating Officer at Racon Capital Partners; General Partner, Super Angel Fund
John StanfillFormer CEO, RainKing Software; Executive Officer, CoStar Group
Louis B. ThalheimerChairman of Lord Baltimore Capital Group
Sandra S. WijnbergFormer Partner, Chief Administrative Officer and Board member, Aquiline Holdings
John L. YoungbloodManaging Partner of Gallatin Capital

Board of Advisors

Mark P. Doherty CFAHedge fund research professional
Samuel L. JacobChief Executive Officer, SLJ Capital Partners
Bob LernerInvestment management entrepreneur
James H. McLaughlinFounder and CEO, J. H. McLaughlin & Co
David PuthVice Chairman North America, Partners Capital
R. Todd RuppertRetired President and CEO, T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services
Dr. Joshua T. VogelsteinPhD, Neuroscience

Meet some of our partners

dcAlta
Institute for Private Capital

Recognition

2023
Best Hedge Fund Indices — HedgeWeek US Awards.
Monthly
A subset of the PivotalPath indices is published by Institutional Investor.
Ongoing
The indices are listed on the Bloomberg Terminal and referenced in industry coverage.

Recent coverage in Institutional Investor →

Transparency, above all.

The same tools and information we use to conduct our own research.

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