# MSCI Private Capital Solutions

> MSCI Private Capital Solutions is MSCI’s private-capital data, analytics and software business, built around Burgiss, acquired in full in 2023. It helps institutional investors monitor funds and holdings, reconcile capital flows, benchmark performance and understand risk across private and public assets. Its offerings include Private i, Private Capital Intel, Private Capital Transparency and Total Plan Manager.

- **Founded:** 1987
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Jim Kocis (Founder and former CEO of Burgiss)
- **Products:** MSCI Private i, Private Capital Intel, Private Capital Transparency, Total Plan Manager, Investment Book of Record
- **Notable:** Burgiss became wholly owned by MSCI on October 2, 2023., The 2023 acquisition announcement put MSCI’s aggregate investment in Burgiss at USD 913 million., Sampension reports onboarding over 500 investments on time, with better operations, accounting and reporting.

## Products & services

- **MSCI Private i** — Private-investment platform for performance measurement, cash-flow management, monitoring, benchmarking and reporting. MSCI’s historical timeline dates the platform debut to 2008.
- **Private Capital Intel** — LP-sourced private-capital data and analytics for peer comparisons, cash-flow analysis, due diligence and customized benchmark universes. Includes AskPCI conversational analysis.
- **Private Capital Transparency** — Standardized holdings and exposure data derived from original manager documents and enriched with research; supports look-through analysis and performance attribution.
- **Total Plan Manager** — Integrated portfolio management and analytics across public and private assets.
- **Investment Book of Record** — Validation and reconciliation of private-capital records; tracks capital calls, distributions and valuations.
- **SourceView** — Reference layer in Private i that links captured figures to pages in the client’s original documents.
- **MSCI | Moody’s Private Credit Risk Assessment** — Combines Moody’s credit models with MSCI data to estimate borrower probability of default, facility loss given default and implied ratings.
- **MSCI Private Assets Diligence Platform** — Formerly Vantager; uses AI to extract and organize GP documents for institutional private-fund and manager diligence.

## Achievements

- Burgiss became wholly owned by MSCI on October 2, 2023.
- The 2023 acquisition announcement put MSCI’s aggregate investment in Burgiss at USD 913 million.
- Sampension reports onboarding over 500 investments on time, with better operations, accounting and reporting.
- MSCI launched daily NAV nowcasting indexes for private credit and private equity on March 25, 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — MSCI’s Q3 filing cites Private Capital Intel, Total Plan Manager and Private Capital Portfolio Management as recurring-subscription growth drivers within Private Capital Solutions; financial totals for All Other - Private Assets also include Real Assets.
- **2026-04** — Parent MSCI announced its PM Insights acquisition on April 7, adding secondary-market reference data; the acquired business is reported in the Index segment, not PCS.
- **2026-03** — MSCI launched Nowcasting (Daily NAV) Indexes on March 25, using private-market histories, public-market proxies and newly reported NAVs.
- **2026-03** — MSCI announced the acquisition of Vantager on March 2; its AI diligence technology is now marketed as the Private Assets Diligence Platform.

## Links

- Website: https://www.msci.com/data-and-analytics/private-asset-solutions
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/burgiss/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/MSCI_Inc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@msciinc

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Last updated: 2026-10-26