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Alternative data is poised to transform private equity. The use of non-traditional, non-financial and externally originating data sets can fundamentally change how buyout firms screen and execute investments, manage their portfolio companies and time their exit. That is contingent, however, on PE managers overcoming the technical and regulatory barriers to emulating their hedge fund counterparts in terms of alt-data adoption.

Broadly speaking, the diverse potential applications of alternative data for private equity firms...