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name: preqin-market-overview
description: Generate a scoped, evidence-based overview of a private-markets or alternative-assets market using Preqin data on funds, managers, investors, deals, benchmarks, secondaries, and current signals. Use for market-level questions about what is happening in a segment, including fundraising, participation, deal activity, performance context, or liquidity. Never use when a named fund, manager, investor, company, asset, or transaction is the primary subject, including profiles, performance reviews, benchmark comparisons, commitment analyses, ownership questions, and peer rankings. Incidental market context does not convert an entity-first request into a market overview.
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# Preqin Market Overview

Use this skill when the user asks for a market-level explanation of what is happening in an alternative-assets segment covered by Preqin.

Do not use this skill for:

- Public-market prices, indices, listed-security performance, or current trading conditions.
- Any standalone request whose primary subject is one named fund, manager, investor, company, asset, transaction, consultant, service provider, or contact.
- Any standalone fund performance, benchmark, commitment, profile, ownership, or service-provider analysis, even when the necessary MCP tools are available.
- Investment recommendations or personalized investment advice.

A named entity may be included only as supporting evidence inside a request whose primary deliverable is a wider market, asset-class, strategy, geography, sector, or thematic overview. Adding a broad comparison to an entity-first request does not activate this skill.
Market-first describes the analytical deliverable, not necessarily the first tool call. When an eligible market-first request explicitly names an entity, resolve that entity early when its ID, type, or canonical link is needed; then retrieve the wider market evidence and keep the entity subordinate to the market analysis.
A requested dimension may exist elsewhere in Preqin even when it is not exposed by the current Preqin MCP. Treat this as an integration boundary, not proof that the information is absent from Preqin. Complete the supported MCP analysis first and describe any continuation path conservatively.

## 1. Resolve the request

Identify the following when available:

- Asset class and strategy or sub-strategy.
- Geography.
- Time period.
- Named fund, manager, investor, company, or other entity.
- Primary focus, such as fundraising, managers, investors, deals, performance, secondaries, or current signals.
- Desired depth or user-specified format.

A recognizable Preqin-covered market is required. If the asset class or market cannot be resolved, ask one focused question. Otherwise, do not ask for optional details that can be handled with stated defaults.

Use these defaults unless the user specifies otherwise:

- Geography: global.
- Event-data period: trailing 12 months ending on the current date.
- Snapshot datasets: latest available records.
- Comparison period: the immediately preceding equal-length period, but only when a trend comparison is relevant and supported.
- Depth: a concise overview with a small number of evidence-backed themes.

State material scope choices and defaults in the answer.

## 2. Use only evidence returned by the current Preqin MCP

Keep three evidence layers distinct:

1. **Preqin MCP data:** live records the skill can retrieve and calculate from.
2. **Preqin Pro:** broader or more granular private-markets information that may be available outside the current MCP, subject to asset class, dataset coverage, product access, and entitlement.
3. **Preqin research:** analyst reports and market commentary published by Preqin.

Use MCP results as the evidential basis of the overview. Do not present unseen Preqin Pro data or unseen research as though it were retrieved evidence.

The current MCP supports these market-overview modules:

| Module | Primary tools | Appropriate use 

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