In this month's Real Assets Spotlight, Preqin provides an excerpt from Preqin Investor Update: Alternative Assets, H2 2018.

In this month's Private Equity & Venture Capital Spotlight, Preqin looks at investor's plans for the private equity asset class in the year ahead, including the regions and strategies presenting the best opportunities.

Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, also referred to as “blank check” companies or “cash shells,” are companies that are incorporated for the purpose of making one or more strategic acquisitions.

In September's Real Estate Spotlight, Preqin takes a look at opportunistic real estate and the risk/return profile associated with the strategy.

With acquirers paying an average premium of 40% over targets’ market value, delivering on promised synergies is critical to the success of most mergers.