Trevor Hope is Chief Investment Officer of Gresham House Ventures, the growth capital arm of one of the UK’s oldest companies. In recent years, the firm has been growing rapidly, consolidating the market for Venture Capital Trusts, tax-break vehicles for individual investors to access growth business in the UK. In this podcast with Ross Butler […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The so-called perma-crisis of political and economic volatility witnessed in the UK, and beyond, has made the business of raising and investing long-term funds is even more uncertain than usual. To help private markets practitioners navigate these choppy waters, we spoke with David Gauke, Damien Crossley and Shailen Patel from Macfarlanes. David Gauke is one […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Dillon leads Waterland Private Equity‘s Dublin office, which she established in 2020. Laura has had a varied career both in private equity and business. She has worked at several private equity firms, including Apax Partners and Riverside, and set up a distribution business with her family that was sold to a corporate acquirer. In […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Newsome is head of portfolio management at Unigestion, a Switzerland-based asset manager with a global private markets platform. Paul has been at the firm for two decades, during which he has set up its private markets operation in North America, and has been instrumental in establishing its directs, co-investment and secondaries programmes. In this […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Larsen has been at the forefront of alternative assets valuation policy for several decades. He is managing director at Kroll, which was acquired by Duff & Phelps in 2018, and advises many of the largest alternatives institutions on private equity transactions and valuations policy. He has been vice-chair of IPEV – the International Private […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Lindauer is co-CIO of Allianz Capital Partners. He joined the institution in 2003 and has been an influential decision-maker with regards to backing private equity managers, and a respected and informed LP. He is based in Europe and has responsibility for ACP’s global private equity investment programme. He talks to Ross Butler of Linear B Group about Allianz’s investment business and market-view, approach to GP selection and terms, and much more. This is a must-watch conversation for any private equity manager who wishes to understand how an experienced and thoughtful institutional investor approaches fund investment opportunities. In this Fund […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Strang is chairman of HgCapital Trust, a senior adviser to CVC Capital Partners, independent director at the Business Growth Fund, a senior adviser at Bain & Company, an advisory director at Campbell Lutyens, a Fellow at the London Business School, and a senior adviser at Hamilton Lane. Back by popular demand, this is Jim’s second time on Fund Shack. We talk about the state of private markets and how the industry grows from here. Inside this Fund Shack private equity podcast… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Ewing is a managing partner at ECI Partners and one of the UK mid-markets best known investors. He speaks to Fund Shack's Ross Butler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Subscribe now: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Mirja Lehmler-Brown is the founding managing director of Hayfin Capital Management‘s Private Equity Solutions investment team. She previously worked with Hayfin founder Tim Flynn (listen to his Fund Shack podcast here) at Goldman Sachs, before moving into PE fund investment with Aberdeen Asset Management and Scottish Widows. Ross Butler (00:00): You’re listening […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify In 2019, Tariq Fancy quit as BlackRock’s most senior sustainability investor.  In 2021, he released an in-depth three-part essay explaining his disillusionment with the concept of stakeholder capitalism and the ESG investment industry that has grown up alongside it.  In this private chat, he explains why sustainable investment is ineffective and what the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices