MSCI World Private Equity Return Tracker Index
Reflects the systematic drivers and performance characteristics of private equity with the transparency and flexibility of public markets.
The MSCI World Private Equity Return Tracker Index is designed to approximate the performance of global private equity using only publicly traded securities. MSCI leverages its proprietary private company dataset — one of the world’s largest — to deliver an innovative index of securities that are broadly accessible by investors.
Get the PE experience — with public market flexibility
Construct portfolios that reflect the systematic drivers of private equity performance — using an index designed to support scalable and transparent investment implementation across global markets.
Confidently build portfolios based on extensive private company fundamentals from MSCI’s vast Private Capital Universe dataset. MSCI is uniquely positioned to select public firms that collectively reflect the characteristics of private equity portfolios.
Access diversified, private equity–like exposure spanning buyout and venture capital investment strategies, with the benefit of robust liquidity and investability index features.
Here’s how it works
Historically, a lack of transparency has made it difficult to separate private equity’s value-add from public market return drivers. We address this by combining proprietary data with an innovative design for an index built to reflect private equity return drivers through public securities.
Private equity-like traits
The MSCI World Private Equity Return Tracker Index is designed to offer a transparent, liquid and scalable way to approximate private equity returns.
Multi-dimensional lens
The index identifies public companies that, in aggregate, represent the region, sector and style characteristics of a global private equity portfolio.
Deep analysis
As the provider of one of the world’s largest private capital databases — with over 260,000 underlying holdings1 — we can deliver unique, sophisticated insights across the private equity universe.
An index built for research, strategy and innovation
Measure and analyze index performance and characteristics to gain key insights that may help serve clients and inform investment decisions.
Use the index to build index-based or active strategies that aim to deliver private equity–like returns but maintain the ease of liquidity.
Analyze index attributes and performance to help formulate private equity views and allocation decisions relative to other key asset classes.
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