eVestment
Acquired by Nasdaq in September 2017 for $705 million, eVestment is a global provider of institutional investment data, analytics, and market intelligence. Operating as part of Nasdaq’s financial technology division, the platform brings transparency to institutional asset allocation, manager selection, performance benchmarking, and competitive intelligence across public and private markets. Nasdaq eVestment connects the three core pillars of the institutional investment ecosystem: Asset Managers (GPs and money managers), Asset Owners (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments), and Investment Consultants. The platform delivers cloud-based SaaS tools, enterprise API feeds, and AI-driven data intelligence to institutional clients across more than 50 countries.
ABOUT EVESTMENT
Founded in 2000 by Jim Minnick, Matt Crisp, and Karen Minnick in Marietta, Georgia, eVestment was created to digitize and standardize institutional investment research.
Over its first decade, eVestment expanded from a manager search tool into an analytics platform used by institutional consultants, pension funds, and asset managers.
Its cloud-based solutions help asset owners and consultants evaluate and select investment managers, enable asset managers to market their funds more effectively worldwide, and provide market intelligence that identifies and capitalizes on global investment trends.
Headquartered in Atlanta, the firm also operates offices in New York, London, Sydney, and Hong Kong, with regional sales offices in Boston, Seattle, Raleigh, Chicago, and Toronto.
CORE USER ECOSYSTEM
For Asset Managers: Helps firms track market trends, benchmark performance against direct peers, identify institutional investor search activity, and market their investment strategies to consultants and allocators.
For Asset Owners & Allocators: Provides verified data and due diligence tools to screen thousands of public equity, fixed income, hedge fund, and private market strategies.
For Investment Consultants: Delivers standardized performance and holdings data to simplify manager research, portfolio monitoring, and client reporting.
KEY PRODUCTS & MODULES
Analytics & Benchmarking: Offers granular, peer-group performance comparison, risk metrics, and strategy tracking across 30,000+ reported strategies.
Market Lens: Delivers competitive intelligence into institutional mandates, allocator search activity, consultant recommendations, and investor rosters.
Private Markets Intelligence: Specialized tools for private equity, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure funds covering deal-level performance calculation, pacing plans, and LP profiles.
Holdings Analysis & RiskPlus: Advanced tools that evaluate underlying portfolio holdings, factor exposures, style drift, and risk management profiles.