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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.

The Pulse: building a capital market from a pension surplus

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.