Quantitative Investment Science

Data-driven insights to diversify and optimize your private markets portfolio

Enhance the construction and selection of your investments with comprehensive benchmarks and expert insights from HarbourVest.

How you can use it

Benchmarking

Analyze your private markets portfolio and its risk-adjusted performance​

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Portfolio construction

Optimize private markets exposure in your portfolio

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Manager selection

Identify and invest in skilled managers to seek alpha generation

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74,500

Holdings

23,000

Funds

50+

Vintage years

38

Team members

As of December 31, 2025

Key benefits

Stronger sources of alpha

We believe private markets are inefficient, offering meaningful and persistent sources of alpha. Not all investors have access to the same information and manager dispersion can be high. ​

By moving beyond intuition to systematic, data-driven insights, we believe you can optimize your private markets portfolios and generate risk-adjusted returns​.

Systematic tools and insights 

Leveraging our comprehensive data set, we have developed a suite of tools to enhance investment decision-making at every stage of the investment process, whether it’s constructing your portfolio, managing risk and liquidity, or choosing the right investments and managers. ​

Built for better decisions

Built for our investment teams to enhance decision-making in our clients’ portfolios, our data-led, systematic tools deliver actionable, forward-looking insights designed to redefine how you build and manage your portfolio.​

The same proprietary tools used by our investment teams are now available to you.​

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