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Preqin, the Glossary

Preqin Ltd. is a privately held London-based investment data company that provides financial data and insight on the alternative assets market, as well as tools to support investment in alternatives.^[1]

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Financial data vendors
Private equity media and publications
Research and analysis firms of the United Kingdom

Aladdin (BlackRock)

Aladdin (Asset, Liability and Debt and Derivative Investment Network) is an electronic system built by BlackRock Solutions, the risk management division of the largest investment management corporation, BlackRock, Inc.

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Alternative investment

An alternative investment, also known as an alternative asset or alternative investment fund (AIF), is an investment in any asset class excluding capital stocks, bonds, and cash.

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Asset classes

In finance, an asset class is a group of financial instruments that have similar financial characteristics and behave similarly in the marketplace.

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BlackRock

BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company.

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Bradley Fried

Sir Bradley Fried (born 12 August 1965) is a South African-British businessman.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Consumer debt

In economics, consumer debt is the amount owed by consumers (as opposed to amounts owed by businesses or governments).

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Financial capital

Financial capital (also simply known as capital or equity in finance, accounting and economics) is any economic resource measured in terms of money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or to provide their services to the sector of the economy upon which their operation is based (e.g.

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Financial data vendor

A financial data vendor provides market data to financial firms, traders, and investors. Preqin and financial data vendor are financial data vendors.

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Financial market

A financial market is a market in which people trade financial securities and derivatives at low transaction costs.

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Freedom of Information Act 2000

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that creates a public "right of access" to information held by public authorities.

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Hedge fund

A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that holds liquid assets and that makes use of complex trading and risk management techniques to improve investment performance and insulate returns from market risk.

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Infrastructure

Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function.

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Investment

Investment is traditionally defined as the "commitment of resources to achieve later benefits".

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Investment management

Investment management (sometimes referred to more generally as asset management) is the professional asset management of various securities, including shareholdings, bonds, and other assets, such as real estate, to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of investors.

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Investor

An investor is a person who allocates financial capital with the expectation of a future return (profit) or to gain an advantage (interest).

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.

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Private equity

Private equity (PE) is capital stock in a private company that does not offer stock to the general public.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Real estate

Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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The King's Awards for Enterprise

The King's Awards for Enterprise, previously known as The Queen's Award for Enterprise, is an awards programme for British businesses and other organizations who excel at international trade, innovation, sustainable development or promoting opportunity (through social mobility).

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category.

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Venture capital

Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preqin

Also known as Private Equity Intelligence.