Ep 31 - Alternative Investments: Private Equity and Secondary Markets Explained

There are half as many public companies today as there were 25 years ago, and the ones that do go public are taking roughly twice as long to get there. SpaceX was founded in 2002 and didn't list until 2026. So where has all that company-building been happening?

Rich talks with Ian Forman of Ardian, a firm that manages or advises an estimated $200 billion, about where all that business activity went, and why a type of investing that used to be limited to pension funds and the very wealthy is now showing up in more ordinary portfolios.

What you'll learn:

• What "quarterly liquidity" means in an evergreen or interval structure
• The four questions to ask before you'd ever consider private equity
• Why "I can never get my money out" is the most common misunderstanding

Access has widened, though eligibility requirements still apply. Nothing here is a recommendation, it's a conversation about how the landscape is shifting and how everyday investors can participate.

Filmed and recorded at Studio on the Avenue/LMC Media
Mamaroneck, NY
https://lmcmedia.org/
Produced and Edited by Vekterly
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