With 25 years of experience, PEI Group is a company operating across four continents that provides information and analysis on private equity investments to clients such as EQT and Blackstone. It founded Private Equity International, the industry’s leading publication for LPs and GPs. PEI Group collects and analyzes vast amounts of data on private markets to help investors better understand where to allocate their capital. It also publishes rankings, studies, and specialized news. In addition, it organizes professional events where industry players can network. To strengthen its position and refine the data provided to its clients, the British firm has just acquired SIPA.
SIPA is an index provider and administrator registered with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), offering data and quantitative analysis solutions for private markets. Developed over the past 10 years by specialists at EDHEC (one of France’s top five business schools, with campuses in London and Singapore), SIPA is already used by investors representing more than $1 trillion in assets under management in private markets, as well as in regulatory frameworks such as the International Capital Standard.
This acquisition reinforces PEI Group’s commitment to developing data-driven analytics and intelligence solutions designed to address the need for transparency and alignment within private markets. By valuing approximately 1 million unlisted investments each month, SIPA’s data offers both robustness and granularity.
“SIPA’s recognized benchmarks in private assets align perfectly with PEI’s strategy to provide a 360-degree view to decision-makers in this sector. “By integrating them into our platforms and enriching them with our unique analyses and differentiated datasets, we are taking a major step forward in our commitment to providing rigorous analysis to investors and fund managers,” explains Edouard Tavernier, CEO of PEI Group.
“EDHEC’s initiatives, such as SIPA, aim to transform academic research into concrete, industry-relevant solutions. PEI’s acquisition of SIPA demonstrates that this strategy continues to bear fruit and create value for both EDHEC and private market players. “SIPA’s success encourages EDHEC to continue investing in research on private assets, whether in asset valuation, risk measurement, or the evaluation of investor performance in this asset class,” said Emmanuel Métais, Dean of EDHEC Business School.
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