Bloomberg has expanded its private markets toolkit with the addition of Hamilton Lane’s suite of twenty closed-end fund performance indices, a move that deepens the data and analytics available to investors tracking private market returns.

Available now on the Bloomberg Terminal ({HLNE <GO>}) and via Bloomberg Data License, the indices cover more than 7,000 private funds across asset classes and geographies, offering LP cash flow–based benchmarks dating back to 2000. For an asset class often criticized for opacity, this integration is a welcome step toward greater transparency and standardization.

“Access to high-quality data is the key to unlocking private markets,” said Griff Norville, Head of Technology Solutions at Hamilton Lane. “By making our indices available on Bloomberg, we’re delivering a transparent, standardized view of performance that fits right into investors’ existing workflow.”

A New Layer of Private Market Intelligence

The Hamilton Lane Private Market Indices allow investors to:

• Benchmark individual funds or portfolios using historical LP cash flow data.
• Analyze all major strategies — from private equity and private credit to real assets, secondaries, and co-investments.
• Access quarterly performance data for ongoing benchmarking and peer comparison.
• Integrate seamlessly via FIGIs (Financial Instrument Global Identifiers) for enterprise-level analytics.

Together, these tools give institutional investors and asset allocators a data-rich foundation for comparing performance, stress-testing assumptions, and aligning private market exposure with public market portfolios.

“Hamilton Lane’s indices are a strong complement to our private markets offering,” said Brad Foster, Bloomberg’s Head of Fixed Income & Private Markets. “They expand the depth of data available to clients who need to benchmark strategies and measure performance with confidence.”

Beyond Benchmarking

The integration also enhances Bloomberg’s existing private fund database ({PE <GO>}) and complements alternative asset tools available under {ALTI <GO>}, extending analytical coverage for both public and private investment strategies.

Bloomberg clients can now screen, monitor, and benchmark private funds using the same data standards that underpin their equity, fixed income, and multi-asset operations—bridging a long-standing gap between traditional and alternative investments.

Why It Matters

For the private markets ecosystem, this collaboration represents more than another data feed—it’s a structural upgrade. By blending Hamilton Lane’s depth of fund-level intelligence with Bloomberg’s distribution power and analytics, investors gain a unified framework to measure, compare, and communicate private market performance with rigor.

And while these indices aren’t designed for use as financial benchmarks, they’re poised to set the standard for transparency in an asset class that has traditionally operated behind the curtain.