Private markets have become a cornerstone of institutional investment strategies. As allocations to alternative assets grow, the complexity of managing the associated data has grown exponentially. Business and technology leaders from across the private markets ecosystem joined us in Toronto for a candid conversation about the data management challenges unique to private market investments.
From these conversations, six key takeaways emerged:
- Manual data processes still remain widespread in private market investments, creating a growing operational liability as allocations scale
- Industry standardization efforts face a paradox — the firms that need data standardization most often have the least capacity for implementation
- AI can unlock standardization, but only if firms start with defined, practical use cases
- Linking data initiatives directly to investment outcomes will promote adoption
- Successful data transformation is contingent on organizational alignment and executive sponsorship
- Firms gain a competitive edge when they treat data as a strategic asset, as data management capabilities increasingly replace investment selection as a key differentiator
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