OUR REGIONS

Global funds with over $5bn AuM investing in a variety of asset classes such as stocks, bonds, real estate, credit, and other assets. Most funds are international with a wide range of funds under management.
Honordex MS AM currently measure over 200 funds.

Honordex measures over 150 global PE funds with over $2bn AuM. These funds invest in or acquire private companies that are not listed on a public stock exchange. PE funds may also buy out public companies, take them private, and then restructure them for potential future growth.

Honordex measures over 150 global VC funds with over $1bn AuM. VC is a form of private equity that funds startups and early-stage emerging companies with little to no operating history but significant potential for growth. Fledgling companies sell ownership stakes to venture capital funds in return for financing, technical support and managerial expertise. VC has an outsized impact on innovation, technology and the economy.

Fintechs—short for financial technology—are companies that rely primarily on technology to conduct fundamental functions provided by financial services, affecting how users store, save, borrow, invest, move, pay, and protect money. They are one of the fastest growing sectors, with several of the PE and VC funds investing, which is why we have added it to Honordex. To date we have over 25 Fintechs ranked.

HE Honordex measures over 160 UK Universities. The expansion to this sector was funded through the Innovate UK, Inclusive Innovation grant in 2024. The reason for expansion to this sector, was to deepen our expertise and impact through the pipeline development of the next generation.