Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s show was recorded live from AltsLA 2023 in partnership with CAIA . CAIA is the leading global professional body dedicated to alternative investment credential programs. On this episode, we speak with Daniel Joye , where he oversees Infrastructure investing at LACERA , the $58 billion AUM Los County Employees Retirement Association. Daniel and I had a fascinating conversation about how an institutional investor like LACERA approaches invest...
May 06, 2023•14 min•Ep. 61
Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s show was recorded live from AltsLA 2023 in partnership with CAIA . CAIA is the leading global professional body dedicated to alternative investment credential programs. On this episode, we speak with Mark Anson , the CEO and CIO of Commonfund ($28B AUM). Mark and I had a fascinating discussion on private markets. We discussed: Why size discipline and sector focus defeat the explosion of capital in private markets. Why multi-manager strateg...
May 04, 2023•53 min•Ep. 60
Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s show was recorded live from AltsLA 2023 in partnership with CAIA . CAIA is the leading global professional body dedicated to alternative investment credential programs. On this episode, we speak with Christopher Ailman , the Chief Investment Officer of one of the world’s largest institutional investors, CalSTRS . Chris and I had a fascinating conversation about all things private markets. We discussed: How one of the world’s largest instit...
May 03, 2023•23 min•Ep. 59
Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast and hello from AltsLA. Today’s show was recorded live from AltsLA 2023 in partnership with CAIA . CAIA is the leading global professional body dedicated to alternative investment credential programs. On this episode, we speak with the 44th Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle , the Chairman of Cerberus Global Investments . We discussed the intersection of politics, private equity, people, and patience: The current state of private markets...
May 02, 2023•18 min•Ep. 58
Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s episode, we go to Europe, and specifically Berlin, a region where some of the most exciting activity in the VC world is occurring. We have Filip Dames , a Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures , a top pan-European early-stage VC fund that has around $700M AUM, lead us in a discussion about why Europe is such a compelling place to invest and why it’s on the precipice of an incredible decade in tech. Filip has the founder DNA. Prior to Cher...
Apr 20, 2023•52 min•Ep. 57
Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we have a private equity expert who is as thoughtful and sharp as they come. Graham Elton is the Chairman of Bain & Company’s EMEA Private Equity practice, where he’s helped many of the largest PE and alts firms navigate a growing market and build successful businesses. Graham has also spearheaded the industry standard in reports — the Bain PE Practice Report — which is read by many across the industry. Many of the world’s lar...
Apr 05, 2023•34 min•Ep. 56
Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. We have a special episode today – it’s a collaboration between Alt Goes Mainstream and Venture Unlocked: Samir Kaji , the Co-Founder & CEO of Allocate and the Venture Unlocked Podcast , and I have a back and forth discussion about the future of private markets and venture. If you are an allocator to private markets or a VC fund manager, you won’t want to miss this. Samir co-founded Allocate to enable the wealth management community to be able ...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 55
Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s podcast, we have an expert in alternative assets and fund accounting. We welcome Gareth Hewitt , a fund accounting veteran and co-founder of LemonEdge , to the show. Gareth is the CEO and Co-Founder of LemonEdge, where they are building a better, more efficient fund accounting software platform. With backing from Blackstone , Lauren Iaslovits , the founder of pioneering fund accounting software Investran (acq by SunGard), Sidekick Partn...
Mar 15, 2023•41 min•Ep. 54
Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode of Alt Goes Mainstream features someone who is building a vertical SaaS solution for fund managers and LPs. Today’s guest is Michel Geolier , the Co-Founder and CEO of Betterfront , a b2b vertical SaaS company dedicated to private markets. He’s building a comprehensive solution to enable fund managers to more efficiently and effectively fundraise trade secondary market fund interests. Betterfront’s mission is to transform the way a...
Mar 01, 2023•42 min•Ep. 53
Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast and Welcome to Wrexham . On today’s show, we go to Wrexham , the town in North Wales that has become a football (soccer) mecca due to a blend of its rich history as home to the 3rd oldest club in the world and a recent injection of Hollywood with Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buying the club. We talk with Shaun Harvey , the Advisor to the Board at Wrexham AFC , and a highly experienced football club and league CEO to discuss how teams can have s...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 52
On the latest episode of Alt Goes Mainstream, we talk with one of the pioneers of the online investment space. Today’s guest is Ben Miller , the Co-Founder and CEO of Fundrise , America’s largest direct-to-investor alternatives investment manager. Ben has tremendous experience and expertise in both the real estate space and in building innovative alternative investment technology solutions. Prior to founding Fundrise, Ben was a Managing Partner of WestMill Capital Partners and President of Weste...
Feb 09, 2023•46 min•Ep. 51
We have an exciting episode today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. We are joined by Mathias Pastor , the Co-Founder of Semper , a London and Paris based company that uses liquidity to align the interests of private companies, employees and investors. Mathias and his co-founder Balthazar de Lavergne created Semper after observing that private companies are staying private longer and employees and founders need ways to unlock liquidity in a systematic, recurring way. Working at The Family, a Eu...
Jan 19, 2023•51 min•Ep. 50
We have a special episode today on Alt Goes Mainstream. Our guest today is Henry Ward , the CEO and co-founder of Carta, one of the most innovative and exciting companies in private markets. Henry founded Carta from the kernel of an idea and they are now trusted by over 30,000 companies, 5,000 investment funds and 2.1 million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity venture capital solutions and more. They’ve raised over $1B from the likes of Silver Lake, Union Squa...
Dec 20, 2022•54 min•Ep. 49
We believe that good things come in bunches. On the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we’ve covered a number of innovative ways in which more investors are now able to access alternative investments thanks to innovation in infrastructure that pools investors together. Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we are lucky enough to peer into a market that’s creating a bunch of excitement: the early stage venture market in Europe. Levent Altunel and Enrico Ohnemuller are a big part of making alts go m...
Dec 12, 2022•50 min•Ep. 48
Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we have the third podcast in a special three part series with some of the titans in the alts world. We are partnering with CAIA , the leading global professional body in alternative investment credentialing programs, for a very special episode that dovetails with the release of their latest report on Renewed Professionalism and creating client centered outcomes for the Portfolio of the Future. We are lucky enough to have Jenny Johnson , the CEO of Frankl...
Nov 16, 2022•50 min•Ep. 47
Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we have the second podcast in a special three part series with some of the titans in the alts world. We are partnering with CAIA , the leading global professional body in alternative investment credentialing programs, for a very special episode that dovetails with the release of their latest report on Renewed Professionalism and creating client centered outcomes for the Portfolio of the Future. We are lucky enough to have Michelle Seitz , a stalwart and ...
Nov 04, 2022•54 min•Ep. 46
Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we have the first podcast in a special three part series with some of the titans in the alts world on how they’ve built and run some of the world’s largest asset managers. We have partnered with CAIA , the leading global professional body in alternative investment credentialing programs, for a very special episode that dovetails with the release of their latest report on Renewed Professionalism and creating client-centered outcomes for the Portfolio of t...
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 45
Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we have two guests who have built alts behemoths: the CEOs of iCapital , Lawrence Calcano , and SIMON , Jason Broder . iCapital and Simon recently completed a landmark transaction in the alts space , with the joining together of two of the largest digital platforms that enable advisors and individuals to invest into private markets through iCapital’s acquisition of SIMON. iCapital has built the leading platform to drive efficiency and alternative investi...
Sep 22, 2022•55 min•Ep. 44
Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who has rich experience in the alts space. Robert Picard , who was recently tapped to become the Head of Alternatives at Hightower , a $117B AUM wealth management platform, has over 32 years of experience on the buy and sell side in alts. Robert came onto the podcast to discuss how he’s witnessed alts evolve over the past 30 years. He’s worked with top-tier asset managers, built private wealth units for banks, and is now building out Hight...
Sep 02, 2022•55 min•Ep. 43
Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a fascinating episode with a wealth management veteran who has transformed his firm into a full fledged asset manager with significant private markets capabilities. Lorenzo Esparza is the CEO and Founding Principal at Manhattan West where he leveraged his legal, corporate, and financial experience to form the modern version of an investment firm. Lorenzo and I had a fascinating conversation that spanned the evolution of wealth management, how advi...
Aug 09, 2022•34 min•Ep. 42
Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who has seen virtually every evolution of the internet and financial services since the 1990s. Graham Jenkin is the co-founder and CEO of CoinList , the leading token issuance platform in the crypto space that has helped a large number of the top crypto projects by market cap get their earliest funding and customers with an initial token sale on CoinList. CoinList has played a critical role in the crypto ecosystem for early-stage token pro...
Jul 21, 2022•49 min•Ep. 41
Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who has seen the alts and crypto worlds from multiple angles. Don Stalter is a Partner at Global Founders Capital (GFC) where he focuses primarily on the US early stage venture market. He has a deep operating background as a founder and operator at some of tech’s leading marketplaces. He co-founded CityDeal, which was acquired by Groupon. He then built Groupon’s international offices in Europe and Asia. He subsequently led BD at Airbnb glo...
Jul 06, 2022•39 min•Ep. 40
Hi from Mexico City. Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream Podcast we travel to one of the most exciting regions in the startup world – Latin America, which has seen venture backed funding dollars of $14.8B flowing into the region in 2021 come in higher than the prior 6 years combined. Brian Requarth comes onto the podcast to talk about building the company that he wish he had when he was an entrepreneur in Latin America. He’s the co-founder of Latitud , the a16z and NFX backed infrastructure and acc...
Jun 14, 2022•51 min•Ep. 39
Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who is making alts go mainstream by streamlining the process of investing into funds. Carta and fund manager veteran Tim Flannery is the Co-Founder of Passthrough , a fund workflow automation tool that digitizes and automates the fund subscription process. We had a fascinating discussion about how Passthrough is providing critical market infrastructure to the alts space and what the future of investing into funds looks like with Passthroug...
Jun 05, 2022•38 min•Ep. 38
A few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA , the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital. Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments. With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resu...
May 14, 2022•33 min•Ep. 37
A few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA , the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital. Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments. With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resu...
May 13, 2022•13 min•Ep. 36
A few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA , the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital. Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments. With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resu...
May 13, 2022•12 min•Ep. 35
A few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA , the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital. Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments. With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resu...
May 13, 2022•25 min•Ep. 34
A few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA , the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital. Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments. With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resu...
May 12, 2022•14 min•Ep. 33
A few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA , the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital. Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments. With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resu...
May 12, 2022•30 min•Ep. 32
