MSCI has acquired PM Insights, a specialist private markets data and analytics firm that provides daily secondary market reference data, including on pricing, valuation, transaction and liquidity, for private company securities.
As companies stay private longer, they grow in number, size and significance. The acquisition of PM Insights will further advance MSCI’s strategy to bring institutional-grade data, pricing transparency and analytics to private asset investing. PM Insights’ data and analytics support portfolio management, performance measurement and index creation, helping market participants understand, monitor and value private equity investments.
PM Insights aggregates proprietary data from a broad network of institutional broker-dealers and bank secondary desks, capturing secondary market activity and equity data for private companies representing an estimated market cap of more than $5.5 trillion as of April. By integrating PM Insights’ data into its