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Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private Markets

Alt Goes Mainstream podcast is the place to turn to for interviews with some of the brightest and most experienced minds in the world at the intersection private markets and wealth management. AGM dives into investment strategies like private equity (PE), private credit, venture capital (VC), secondaries, GP stakes, infrastructure, real estate, wealth management, and comprehensively covers tools and frameworks for approaching private markets, such as asset allocation, evergreen funds, model portfolios, and more. For anyone looking to invest into private markets (from experienced wealth managers to family offices to the individual investor looking for a more diversified investment portfolio), you’ll hear inside stories from executives and founders at some of the world’s largest financial institutions, alternative asset managers firms, and wealth management firms. More than a personal finance podcast, Alt Goes Mainstream dives deep into trends, investment strategies, firm building lessons, and innovative technologies that are enabling investors to access private markets.
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Episodes

The Future of Crypto and Wealth Management: Insights from Bitwise's CIO, Matt Hougan

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have Matt Hougan , the Chief Investment Officer of Bitwise Asset Management and one of the leaders in the crypto industry. On today's podcast, we talk about: * Matt's views on crypto. * How Bitwise is bringing crypto to the wealth advisory community. * How crypto's evolution is similar to that of the ETF market. * How community has played such a big role in making crypto go mainstream. Matt has had an illustrious career at the forefront of major indust...

Apr 15, 202146 minEp. 5

The Future of Wealth Management and the Role of Alternative Investments With Dynasty Financial Partners Co-Founder, Ed Swenson

Today, we have a special guest from an industry leader in the wealth management space. Ed Swenson is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the wealth management space. Ed is the Co-Founder and COO of Dynasty Financial Partners , a leading RIA technology services platform. Ed and I had a really interesting discussion about the future of the wealth management industry – and how alts will play a role in the evolution of the space. We discussed: How and why the wealth management industry is ch...

Apr 06, 202147 minEp. 4

Democratizing Access to Private Investing & Wealth Creation in Private Markets With Republic Co-Founder and CEO, Ken Nguyen

Today, we have a guest who's democratizing access to private investing. Ken Nguyen is the co-founder and CEO of Republic , a multi-asset investment platform for private markets. Ken is a pioneer in the private markets investing world and a serial operator who knows how to build businesses. He's helped grow Republic to hundreds of millions of dollars in gross transaction volume over the past three years after Republic spun out of AngelList. After Ken was an instrumental part of building the inves...

Mar 31, 202154 minEp. 3

Building The Infrastructure for the New Investible Asset Class of Sports Trading Cards with Leore Avidar of Alt

Today we have a guest who is building the infrastructure for a new asset class – sports cards. Leore Avidar is a visionary founder who is building a ground-breaking company, Alt , which is backed by Alexis Ohanian and Seven Seven Six , as well as First Round Capital , Addition , SV Angel , Box Group , and Kevin Durant ’s Thirty Five Ventures . Alt is on its way to changing how we think about investing. This was such a fun conversation. We talked about: How Leore’s experience and excitement for b...

Mar 16, 202152 minEp. 2

Democratizing Access to Alternative Investments: Insights from iCapital's Lawrence Calcano

I’m thrilled to kick off the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast with a special guest - one of the leaders in the alts industry, Lawrence Calcano of iCapital Network . Lawrence has built iCapital into one of the category defining companies in the alts space. They have democratized access to high quality alternative investment products for the wealth management industry. Lawrence and the iCapital team have built the de facto operating system for the wealth management community to invest in and access lea...

Mar 12, 202142 minEp. 1
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