“If you really want to know what PE is holding, you have to partner with one of the handful of firms in the world that actually have the data on everything going on in PE”

Alpha Exchange · Randy Cohen, Professor of Entrepreneurship & Finance Harvard Business School Co-Founder, PEO Partners

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partnered with one of the few firms that own comprehensive data on private-equity holdings to gain deep insight into PE positions for public-market replication

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