Simulation & Benchmarking
Empowering Data-Driven Decisions
Discover how tailored analytics and visual tools can simplify complex data. We specialize in guiding financial professionals through uncertainty, ensuring every decision is backed by solid insights.
Simulation & Benchmarking Services Overview
Bella’s Simulation & Benchmarking services help allocators make better decisions through forward-looking models and allocator-specific performance comparisons. We build custom tools that simulate liquidity pacing, NAV evolution, and return distributions across a range of strategic scenarios—equipping CIOs and staff with insight that replaces guesswork with clarity. Our benchmarking frameworks go beyond generic indices, offering tailored peer comparisons grounded in vintage, strategy, geography, and mandate. Whether assessing re-ups, designing pacing schedules, or stress-testing future capital calls, our solutions bring institutional discipline to private markets. Bella enables clients to validate decisions, anticipate risks, and communicate strategy with precision.
Example Engagements:
Pacing & Liquidity Modeling
Simulate capital flows to manage commitments and maintain liquidity.
Portfolio Stress Testing
Model downside scenarios to assess resilience and risk exposure.
Custom Peer Benchmarking
Compare performance using allocator-specific peer groups and metrics.
Strategy Forecasting
Project return ranges across asset classes and commitment schedules.
Bella Analytics
Proprietary Simulation & Benchmarking Technology
At Bella Research, we leverage our simulation and benchmarking process & tools designed to give allocators unprecedented clarity into private market dynamics. These proprietary frameworks allow institutions to model capital calls, distributions, and liquidity scenarios, while also comparing performance against peers, vintages, and industry standards. By combining academic rigor with allocator-tested design, our tools provide decision-makers with evidence-based insights that simplify complexity and enhance confidence.
Why Clients Choose Bella
Private Markets Simulation & Benchmarking
Our simulation and benchmarking services offer precise insights that enhance your decision-making processes and drive strategic success.
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Allocator-Calibrated Models
Bella builds simulation tools designed specifically for illiquid private capital portfolios, allowing clients to model liquidity, pacing, and performance with institutional-grade precision. This empowers CIOs and staff to forecast future needs and manage capital with confidence.
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Scenario Confidence
Our simulation frameworks enable allocators to test strategies under varied market and pacing assumptions, enhancing risk awareness and planning agility. Clients can stress-test portfolios and anticipate outcomes before making critical decisions.
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Peer Comparisons
Bella provides customized benchmarking that reflects your actual exposure, vintage mix, and mandate—not generic databases. This gives clients a truer picture of relative performance and strategic position across the industry.
How We Solve Your Challenges
Strategize & Measure
| Common Challenges | How Bella Solves It | |
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| Uncertainty around capital pacing, liquidity, and future commitments | | Bella builds dynamic models to simulate cash flows, NAV evolution, and commitment schedules |
| Difficulty comparing performance across vintage years, geographies, or strategies | | We develop custom peer benchmarks tailored to your portfolio structure and exposures |
| Limited internal tools to model illiquid private capital outcomes | | Bella provides tested forecasting engines built for long-term, illiquid asset classes |
| Pressure to justify strategy shifts with data | | We use forward-looking modeling and sensitivity analysis to validate investment decisions |
| Reactive decision-making driven by partial data or heuristics | | Our tools create scenario-tested clarity that replaces guesswork with conviction |
Past Work
See our Expertise in Action
Delivering Results Around the Globe
Client Countries
Bella’s global reach spans 30+ countries and 6 continents
Clients Served
Bella has helped new and established groups alike from across the private market spectrum
Combined Client AUM
Bella’s clients range from first-time funds to multi-trillion-dollar financial institutions
Years Active
Bella has built longstanding relationships with private capital leaders over its decade-plus of advising the industry
Our Process Explained
Discovery & Alignment
We begin by listening, understanding your mandate, goals, constraints, and decision environment. This ensures every engagement is framed around what matters most to your institution.
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Diagnostic & Scoping
Through targeted assessments, we identify the key questions, challenges, and opportunities shaping your capital strategy. We define a scope of work tailored to your structure, scale, and context.
Custom Research & Analysis
Our team develops bespoke research, simulations, or strategic frameworks grounded in empirical methods and allocator-tested models, always aligned with your objectives.
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Strategic Advisory & Recommendations
We translate insights into action. Whether the output is a governance redesign, a performance benchmark, or a new capital policy, every recommendation is clear, practical, and defensible.
Stakeholder Engagement & Refinement
We collaborate with your team, boards, or partners to present findings, gather feedback, and refine recommendations, ensuring alignment, buy-in, and clarity across all stakeholders.
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Implementation Support & Ongoing Advisory
We provide continued support as you operationalize changes, helping to troubleshoot, refine, and adapt as new challenges and opportunities emerge.
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Common Questions About Simulation & Benchmarking
Bella provides proprietary simulation tools built specifically for illiquid assets, enabling allocators to model capital calls, distributions, pacing strategies, and liquidity stress tests. We use empirical fund behavior and allocator data to create forward-looking insights that support portfolio planning.
Bella offers customized benchmarking frameworks that go beyond basic comparisons, incorporating vintage, sector, and strategy-specific data, as well as public market comparisons using dedicated metrics. Our models compare performance against realistic peer sets to inform manager assessments and allocation decisions.
Bella’s scenario modeling framework allows allocators to test macroeconomic shocks—like the impacts of interest rate changes or market downturns—on capital deployment, performance, and liquidity needs. These stress tests help investment teams prepare for downside outcomes.
We benchmark institutional pacing strategies across sovereigns, pensions, and endowments, among others, to guide custom pacing plans that fit your target allocation and risk budget. Bella’s frameworks are informed by real-world allocator objectives and constraints—not theoretical models.
Our models are calibrated using actual fund behavior and allocator data, ensuring robustness for long-term scenario testing. We provide confidence bands and risk ranges to support sound strategic planning under uncertainty.
Why Choose Us?
Tailored Solutions
Our services are customized to address your specific financial challenges and sector, enabling you to implement effective strategies that lead to success.
Expert Insights
Gain detailed analytics that help you comprehend market trends and consumer behavior. Our insights are reliable, making planning easier and more effective.
How We Help
Customized Private Market Solutions
Who We Help
Expertise Translated into Real Results
Industry Groups
Helping Build Private Market Understanding Through Custom Thought Leadership
Ready to get started?
At Bella Private Markets, we are dedicated to providing world-class insights and analyses to help you navigate the complexities of the private market landscape. Our expert team is here to assist you through our consulting services, impactful research, and tailored training programs to help empower institutional decision-making.