How FundComb Compiles Investor Data

Ranked Lists

List pages are generated from the live FundComb database. In a strategy context, “largest” uses a public 0–100 FundComb ranking score: up to 65 points for comparable scale, 25 for strategy fit and 10 for source quality and freshness. Every scored result shows the raw metric, its scope, basis and date. Firms without a verified comparable figure remain eligible but appear below scored results.

Scale and Comparability

FundComb preserves the reported metric instead of silently blending total AUM, fee-earning AUM, regulatory AUM, committed capital, fund-family lower bounds, vehicle size and pension-plan assets. Strategy total AUM is directly comparable. Dominant-strategy firm AUM is weighted at 95%, strategy fee-earning or regulatory AUM at 90%, strategy-family AUM at 85%, committed capital and fund-family lower bounds at 75%, and a verified multi-strategy firm-wide fallback at 65%. Vehicle size and pension-plan assets never rank a manager.

Sectors and Focus

The public taxonomy uses 11 broad sectors and a small governed set of familiar focus areas. Specific language such as payments, diagnostics, digital infrastructure or AgTech remains searchable and is preserved as source language without becoming another permanent checkbox. Focus is attached to the vehicle, exact strategy, strategy family or firm-wide level; a firm-wide assertion is labelled and ranks below exact strategy evidence.

Stated investment focus and observed portfolio exposure are separate. Observed exposure is shown only with an adequate disclosed-company sample and coverage, is labelled with its sample size and never creates a specialist designation. “Stated focus only” excludes observed matches.

Headquarters, Offices and Geography

FundComb keeps headquarters, office presence and investment geography as separate fields. A firm headquartered in Singapore with a Sydney office should appear differently from an Australian-headquartered firm, and a global investor may invest in a country without having an office there.

Entities, Strategies and Stages

Entity kind, capital source, business role, investment strategy and company stage are separate axes. A multi-strategy manager can qualify for several strategy searches without being stored as a “multi-strategy” category. Pension and superannuation funds remain distinct from sovereign investors, but can be searched together with sovereigns and endowments as institutional asset owners. Their plan assets are labelled separately from manager AUM. Individuals, single-family offices and multi-family offices remain separate records but share the “Family Offices & Private Investors” surface. That page ranks relevance and cheque ranges where sourced; it does not rank personal wealth or family-office AUM.

Corrections

The database changes as new evidence is found and older records are cleaned. Public pages include a feedback link so investors and readers can report stale URLs, outdated headquarters, missing offices or incorrect classifications.