In this edition of The Top Quartile: In Conversation, Andrés Ramos, content specialist at Nasdaq Private Fund Solutions, welcomes to the studio Katie Riester, Partner and Head of Investor Relations at Felicis, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that partners with founders building iconic companies around the world, across sectors, and at various stages.
This month Nasdaq published the Private Fund Trends Report 22/23 which explores the top private markets themes from 2022 as well as public pension plan commitment activity from across the various private markets asset classes. The report highlights the top GPs and LP allocators from the year while also delivering forward-looking insights on private markets fundraising in 2023. Get three key takeaways from the report.
In this edition of The Top Quartile: In Conversation, Andrés Ramos, content specialist at Nasdaq Private Fund Solutions, sits down with Chris Freeze, Senior Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations at Churchill Asset Management, a $46 billion private capital provider with direct lending and private equity solutions for middle market private equity firms.
A successful fund raise begins with actionable intelligence. Beyond identifying the new investors that a fund manager will pitch to while on the fundraising trail, understanding which comparable peer funds are also in market is another important piece of intelligence that can support a successful capital raise.
Get insights on the reported commitments from top public pension plans and the private fund managers they are allocating to. Private markets firms can use this information to understand the fund strategies most popular with investors, the most active plans and the latest fundraising activity of their peers.
In this edition of The Top Quartile: In Conversation, Andrés Ramos, content specialist at Nasdaq Private Fund Solutions, sits down with Kristin DePlatchett, Partner and Head of Investor Relations at Trilantic North America.
Kristin is an experienced private markets professional who, prior to joining Trialantic, ran her own private markets consultancy Kraken Capital. Prior to founding Kraken Capital, Kristin spent 9 years at StepStone Group as a LP investor and advisor.
Last week, members of the Nasdaq eVestment team attended The Private Markets Texas Meeting in Austin, Texas. The event brought together over 250 Texas-based LPs and GPs for a series of panels and networking on the allocations, investment opportunities, and performance of private markets strategies in the current economic environment.
This blog post explores key takeaways for fund managers from the event.
In this edition of The Top Quartile: In Conversation, Andrés Ramos, content specialist at Nasdaq Private Fund Solutions, is joined by Kathryn Pothier, Head of Investor Relations at Trive Capital.
Released in August 2022, the US Public Plan Asset Allocation Report from Nasdaq eVestment offers fund managers a detailed look into the demand for specific strategies from US-based public pension plan investors.
Here are three key takeaways for private fund managers from the report.
In this edition of The Top Quartile: In Conversation, Andrés Ramos, content specialist at Nasdaq Private Fund Solutions, is joined by Lisa Calhoun, general partner at Valor Ventures, an Atlanta-based venture capital firm focused on B2B SaaS companies in the United States South.