In essence, the Pragmatist's Manifesto makes only simple demands on a fund manager.

There is a spectre haunting the tax-advantaged market: the Patient Capital Review. The thinking of the Treasury is much remarked upon, but little known, with mentions like that of the Chancellor's...

Financial market performance year-to-date has been extraordinary and dotted with idiosyncratic, systematic, and nearly systemic risk events

Finally, venture investing is a competitive sport: if someone has an advantage, it should be expected that a rival will likely try and copy it.

Recently traditional ways of communicating have gone through a radical transformation, and the importance of connecting and sharing information

Principally, the changes were made to provide more exposure to content created by smaller firms.

We have compiled an investor checklist of some of the things that managers look for when deciding whether to invest in a potential company.

2008 was a year that rattled the financial world, but it shook indie film producers as much as anyone.

In the United States, 60% of venture capital firms have experience with start-ups.

There have been a number of significant developments across capital and financial markets in recent weeks, many of which have been directly or indirectly related to the ongoing impact of COVID-19, otherwise known as Coronavirus.

The earn-outs we see are most commonly tied to financial targets, typically based on a sales or revenue target.

ESG matters for a lot of reasons. One of the most important is simply that it matters to the investors that allocate the money. It's their capital and it's important to them that it be invested responsibly.

In a way, demonstrating relevance is a fund manager's ticket to the Royal Ball, but only those in the most exceptional gowns get to dance with the Prince.

Shariah-compliant private equity funds are governed by the laws and principles of Islam. The amount of capital managed by these funds continues to increase, partly due to the build-up of savings

Marketing a fund is a game of catch. When you communicate with an investor you are throwing the ball. When the investor responds, they are throwing it back.

We've written before (https://www.mjhudson.com/newsletter/differentiating-your-fund-stand-up-if-you-dont-stand-out/) about the challenges of differentiating one's private equity fund...

We know that fund management firms can be insular, particularly in alternatives. Few take the time to consider fully how key stakeholders and counterparties perceive their firm.

Driven by robust investor demand for alternative asset exposure, the secondaries market – the purchase and sale of existing LP commitments in private equity and other alternative asset funds – has boomed in the last decade.

Equity exposure is often the largest risk in institutional investors' portfolios.

Whilst certain details of private markets investing have changed very little in the last 25 years (8% hurdle, 20% carry, conference buffet menus, take a bow), there are dramatic changes underway, and now is the time ...