MSCI Private Asset Factor Models
- Measure risk across private and public assets
- Strengthen governance and risk oversight
- Across private credit, equity, infrastructure and real estate
Built for total portfolio construction and risk analysis
Understand how private market strategies align with long-term portfolio goals through factor-based decomposition.
Analyze the impact of medium-term allocation changes across public and private markets.
Spot changes in risk, exposure or liquidity using integrated models and data across public and private assets.
Models for every private market
Each model is designed to capture the unique characteristics of its asset class, supporting more informed allocation decisions and portfolio and risk management.
Private credit
Evaluate credit exposures with strategy-specific factors to assess their impact on diversification across your total portfolio.
Private equity
Analyze private equity risk with greater precision to better understand its impact on diversification and active risk.
Private infrastructure
Link fundamental cash flows to systematic risk exposures with a model built to distill the complexity of infrastructure into systematic risk factors.
Private real estate
Analyze the distinct income and capital return components of real estate investments – by property type, location and return driver.
Consistent, comparable risk insights
Combine our asset-class breadth, tested factor analytics and quality data to bring private assets into an integrated portfolio view.
Leverage purpose-built models
Go beyond public proxies with models built for the specific complexities of private equity, credit, real estate and infrastructure.
Unify public and private assets
Apply a market-tested factor framework to evaluate risk consistently across public and private holdings.
Access extensive private asset data
Enable flexible, fund- and asset-level risk modeling with data on 14,700+ private funds and 530,000+ underlying investments.1
Explore insights and tools
The MSCI Private Credit Factor Model
Learn how dedicated factors and loan-level analytics can help institutional investors evaluate private credit.
Multi-Asset Class (MAC) Factor Model
An asset allocation model that informs systematic strategies with consistency across asset classes and enables you to identify key risk and return drivers.
BarraOne
Make more informed investment decisions with a research-driven platform. Manage risk exposures across public, derivative and private asset classes.
Private Credit Solutions
Confidently assess private credit risk and exposures with MSCI and Moody’s independent analytics, powered by insights on 2,800+ funds and 60,000+ loans.
Private Capital Transparency
Navigate private markets with confidence using a dataset enriched with research-driven insights. Continuously sourced from original manager documents, our data is uniformly classified and checked for greater reliability.
Resources and research
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1 Data as of April 2025. The number of funds and underlying investments is subject to change.