? Hi, I’m Michael. Welcome to AGM, the meeting place for private markets. I’m excited to share my weekly newsletter, the AGM Alts Weekly. Every Sunday, I cover news, trends, and insights on the continuing evolution and innovation in private markets. I share relevant news articles, commentary, an Index of publicly traded alternative asset managers, job openings at private markets firms, and recent podcasts and thought pieces from Alt Goes Mainstream. Join over 4,500 thought leaders from top private markets firms like Blackstone, Apollo, Ares, KKR, Carlyle, Blue Owl, Goldman Sachs, J.P. M ..read more

Welcome to the 9th episode of a collaboration between iCapital x Alt Goes Mainstream. Here’s the latest episode of the Monthly Alts Pulse, a live conversation in studio with Lawrence Calcano, the Chairman & CEO of iCapital, who as the leader of a platform that is responsible for the majority of individual and advisor-led investment flows into the alts space, has his finger on the pulse of what’s happening in private markets. In today’s episode, Lawrence and I welcome a special guest. Arax Investment Partners CEO Haig Ariyan, a wealth management industry veteran, joins us to discuss the evo ..read more

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode is with a fintech founder who has scaled one of the larger private markets investing platforms for individual investors. Michael Weisz is the Founder and CEO of Yieldstreet, a leading private markets investing platform, with more than 450K members and $3.9B invested (as of October 2023). Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Transistor An award-winning entrepreneur, he co-founded Yieldstreet in 2015 with the ambition to provide individual investors with access to curated private market assets typically reserved for ..read more

? Hi, I’m Michael. Welcome to AGM, the meeting place for private markets. I’m excited to share my weekly newsletter, the AGM Alts Weekly. Every Sunday, I cover news, trends, and insights on the continuing evolution and innovation in private markets. I share relevant news articles, commentary, an Index of publicly traded alternative asset managers, job openings at private markets firms, and recent podcasts and thought pieces from Alt Goes Mainstream. Join over 4,400 thought leaders from top private markets firms like Blackstone, Apollo, Ares, KKR, Carlyle, Blue Owl, Goldman Sachs, J.P. M ..read more

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode with an internet legend provides an illuminating window into how the past can help inform us about the future. Steve Case is a pioneer and a visionary. He built one of the foundational companies of the internet, AOL, that brought America and the world online. As one of America’s best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs, Steve has spent the past 39 years building, investing in, and shaping business policy for many industry-defining companies. Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Transistor His entrepreneurial ..read more

? Hi, I’m Michael. Welcome to AGM, the meeting place for private markets. I’m excited to share my weekly newsletter, the AGM Alts Weekly. Every Sunday, I cover news, trends, and insights on the continuing evolution and innovation in private markets. I share relevant news articles, commentary, an Index of publicly traded alternative asset managers, job openings at private markets firms, and recent podcasts and thought pieces from Alt Goes Mainstream. Join over 4,400 thought leaders from top private markets firms like Blackstone, Apollo, Ares, KKR, Carlyle, Blue Owl, Goldman Sachs, J.P. M ..read more

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode takes us into the world of technology with an expert in private markets tech. Griff Norville is a Managing Director and Head of Technology Solutions at Hamilton Lane, the $903B AUM (*Inclusive of $120.2B in discretionary assets under management and $782.9B in non-discretionary assets under management, as of December 31, 2023) global alternative asset manager. Griff leads the firm’s tech-enabled analytics, forecasting, and investment diligence platform, Cobalt LPTM and related portfolio reporting services, and co-heads the firm’s ..read more

? Hi, I’m Michael. Welcome to my weekly newsletter, the AGM Alts Weekly. Every Sunday, I cover news, trends, and insights on the continuing evolution and innovation in private markets. I share relevant news articles, commentary, an Index of publicly traded alternative asset managers, job openings at private markets firms, and recent podcasts and thought pieces from Alt Goes Mainstream. Join over 4,400 thought leaders from top private markets firms like Blackstone, Apollo, Ares, KKR, Carlyle, Blue Owl, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, BlackRock, Fidelity, iCapital, Franklin Templeton, and mor ..read more

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today we have the operator’s view on the show. We bring in someone who rose up the ranks of a private equity-backed software company to be CEO of that company — ECi Software Solutions — that now generates over $500M in revenue and $200M in EBITDA. We welcome Ron Books, now an Operating Partner at Carlyle and the CEO at Net Health, a Carlyle portfolio company. He also sits on a number of boards for Carlyle. Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Transistor He is now the Chairman and is the former CEO of ECi Software Solutions, a lea ..read more

? Hi, I’m Michael. Welcome to my weekly newsletter, the AGM Alts Weekly. Every Sunday, I cover news, trends, and insights on the continuing evolution and innovation in private markets. I share relevant news articles, commentary, an Index of publicly traded alternative asset managers, job openings at private markets firms, and recent podcasts and thought pieces from Alt Goes Mainstream. Join over 4,300 thought leaders from top private markets firms like Blackstone, Apollo, Ares, KKR, Carlyle, Blue Owl, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, BlackRock, Fidelity, iCapital, Franklin Templeton, and mor ..read more