Podcast · Episode 13
The Pulse: building a capital market from a pension surplus
A fund manager and a mid-market chief executive discuss why domestic institutional money and local growth capital keep failing to find each other.
Two sides of the same market, in one conversation.
A fund manager who has to deploy domestically and a chief executive who has been trying to raise growth capital talk through why the transaction that should be obvious keeps not happening.
In this episode
- Minimum ticket sizes and why they exclude most local raises
- What disclosure actually costs a family-held business
- Whether a junior board would change anything
- The case for pooled vehicles
I have the mandate and the money. What I do not have is a deal I can size.
Listening time: 41 minutes.