Private Equity
In this keynote video from the PartnerConnect East 2013 conference in Boston, Mark Yusko, CEO and CIO of Morgan Creek Capital Management, the multi-strategy Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based advisory shop, talks about economic and financial trends in a talk he described as “surviving in the age of financial repression.”
1 min read · 14 June 2013
Charlie Krusen, the founder of Krusen Capital Management, a New York- based adviser on alternatives, talks in this video about his firm’s strategy for working with clients, typically family offices or advisory firms for individual investors, on ways of integrating alternative investments such as private equity with the clients’ other assets to mitigate volatility.
1 min read · 06 June 2013
Peter Lacaillade, the director of private equity at SCS Financial, talks in this video about the evolution of the Boston-based multi-family office and its approach to the alternatives sector, including buyouts, growth equity, venture capital and energy investing. SCS Financial has some $11 billion under management.
1 min read · 30 May 2013
Sanjay Gupta, the executive director of Swiss fund of funds manager Adveq Management, talks in this video about the firm’s strategy to target top decile returns by focusing on small or mid-size funds that have heavily operational strategies.
1 min read · 22 May 2013
Jay Park, a managing director at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, talks in this video about the firm’s strategy for investing in private equity and venture capital funds. The key issue, he tells interviewer Danielle Fugazy: “Is this a manager we want to work with?”
1 min read · 17 May 2013
Daniel Feder, senior investment manager at Covariance Capital Management, talks in this video about his firm, an “outsourced CIO” that operates under the umbrella of pension giant TIAA-CREF to provide professional invesment services to smaller endowments, foundations and other investors. The firm, with $1 billion under management, has a 10 percent allocation to private equity, Feder says, about equally allocated to venture capital and buyouts and almost equally allocated between U.S. and international managers.
1 min read · 08 May 2013
Panelists discuss market volatility, currency fluctuations and the quest for risk-adjusted returns during our conference in June.
1 min read · 21 November 2012
In this session from our June conference, a group of investors discuss tools and methods for finding the top—and bottom—quartiles.
1 min read · 17 November 2012
A discussion of trends and issues in buyout strategies and fundraising, from our Chicago conference in June.
1 min read · 12 November 2012
From our conference in June, a panel of experts discuss trends and tips for GPs & LPs.
1 min read · 02 November 2012