iCapital: Beyond 60/40

In this episode of Beyond 60/40, Anastasia Amoroso, iCapital's Chief Investment Strategist, hosts the show from the iCapital Connect LATAM 2024 event in Tulum, Mexico. She speaks with Fernando DeLeon, the founder and CEO of Leon Capital, who shares his entrepreneurial journey and the emerging opportunities he sees in real estate and healthcare. Additionally, Jorge Rivera, co-founder and managing partner of Unicorn Strategic Capital, outlines key trends in alternative investment adoption throughout the Latin America region.The episode also features insights on the growth of private markets, with a focus on how alternatives have grown significantly and now hold $14 trillion across all private capital strategies globally. The discussion highlights the increasing interest from private capital investors in diversified asset classes, such as real estate and infrastructure, and the favorable conditions created by synchronized central bank easing.

In this episode of Beyond 60/40 covers private equity, the adoption of alternative investments, and how to manage structured products with less time and effort. Anastasia Amoroso, iCapital Chief Investment Strategist, leads this Private Market Pulse to provide insights from iCapital's Q3 2024 private markets data, highlighting increased investor interest and allocations to private equity, driven by factors such as economic resilience, improving deal activity and exits, and more favorable financing conditions. Then, she sits down with Joan Solotar, Global Head of Private Wealth Solutions at Blackstone, to discuss the early-stage adoption of alternative investments, including private equity, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure. In this insightful conversation, Solotar emphasizes the crucial role of education, technology, and reducing friction to accelerate the adoption of these alternatives. Then, iCapital's Managing Director of Structured Products, Steve Czick, answers a viewer question of the month: Is there another way to manage structured products without so much time and effort involved? Czick offers an efficient solution—utilizing separately managed accounts (SMAs) for structured products. This approach not only frees up valuable time for advisors to focus on tactical investments and other portfolio management activities but also offers a seamless transition for existing structured note holdings to an SMA platform. Submit your alternative investments questions to yourquestion@icapitalnetwork.com to be answered on an upcoming episode. 

Watch this episode of Beyond 60/40 to hear conversations filmed from Singapore at our recent iCapital CONNECT | Singapore 2024 event. Anastasia Amoroso, iCapital Chief Investment Strategist, sits down with Jenifer Zhu Scott, Founding Partner of IN. Capital to discuss artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies, including risks and opportunities. Then, iCapital Managing Director, Head of International, Marco Bizzozero, shares the growth of the alternatives industry in Asia and iCapital's plans to expand in more global markets. 

In episode 27 of Beyond 60/40, we're tackling Commercial Real Estate and Defined Outcome Investing. Watch as Chief Investment Strategist, Anastasia Amoroso, shares insights into the Fed rate cuts on commercial real estate during her Private Market Pulse segment. Then, she talks with Ben Brown, Managing Partner, Head of the Americas, at Brookfield Asset Management Real Estate Group about potential returns in real estate based on the current environment. Lastly, Nick Parcharidis, iCapital's Managing Director, Private Wealth Solutions, joins to answer an audience question of the month: How does defined outcome investing (DOI) enhance diversification beyond the traditional 60/40, and how are the latest innovations in DOI expanding the choices for advisors and their clients? Watch for the answer. Submit your alternative investments questions to yourquestion@icapitalnetwork.com to be answered on an upcoming episode. 

Beyond 60/40 goes global! Watch this episode for an international look at alternative investments with guests from across the globe. First, Anastasia Amoroso covers (TBC) in her Private Market Pulse segment. Then, she is joined by Mathieu Chabran, Co-Founder of Tikehau Capital, to discuss the potential for European institutional investors to increase their allocations to private markets, as well as sectors primed with megatrends. Lastly, Anastasia sits down with Vanda de Jesus, Managing Director & Head of Country Portugal, at iCapital's technology and operations hub in Lisbon, Portugal. Vanda sheds light on private market growth in Portugal and how iCapital is focused on expanding the adoption of alternative investments in Europe, and managing fears and anxieties around new technologies for internal staff and clients. 

This episode explores the latest trend with Broadly Syndicated Loans (BSL) regaining market share from private credit by Anastasia Amoroso, iCapital Chief Investment Strategist. Then Anastasia is joined by Jeff Levin, Co-Head of North America Private Credit at Morgan Stanley, to talk about private credit misconceptions.Lastly iCapital's Joe Larizza, answers our viewer Question of the Month: How should advisors prioritize when considering technology for financial reporting? Tune in to find out the answer from iCapital's Managing Director of Data Solutions.Have a question about alternative investing? Write in to yourquestion@icapitalnetwork.com and it will be answered anonymously on a future episode.Watch Beyond 60/40 to hear Anastasia Amoroso, iCapital's Chief Investment Strategist, and guests discuss the latest trends and strategies in alternative investing. New episodes release every other week.

This episode of Beyond 60/40 discusses 3 reasons for continued market optimism, trends in the private wealth sector, and how AI innovation increases efficiency in portfolios. Watch now to hear from Citi's Head of Investment Solutions, Kristen Bitterly Michell, and Hamilton Lane's Head of Technology Solutions, Griffith Norville: https://lnkd.in/em4gf3qv #alternativeinvestments #investing #fintech #finance #technology

Tune in to the latest episode of “Beyond 60/40” to learn more about the value proposition of private equity. Private equity represents the largest alternative asset class, with $5.9 trillion in assets under management (AUM) as of Q3 '23. Projections indicate that it will grow to $8.5 trillion by 2028.Anastasia Amoroso, iCapital’s Chief Investment Strategist, discusses the value proposition of private equity companies. She then interviews Rich Friedman, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, to explore the role of private equity in diversified portfolios. Finally, Kunal Shah, Head of Private Asset Research, and Anthony Polemis, Head of Architect Business Development, delve into iCapital’s Model Portfolios construction tool and its role in helping advisors incorporate alternative investments.Do you or your clients have questions about alternative investments? Feel free to email yourquestion@icapitalnetwork.com, and we’ll address them anonymously in a future episode.

Beyond 60/40 discusses the latest in alternative investing. On this episode, learn more about investing in the software sector. Anastasia Amoroso, iCapital's Chief Investment Strategist, dives into how investors should be thinking about allocating to public and private software companies. Then she talks with David Flannery, President of Vista Credit Partners, which specializes in providing growth capital to enterprise software companies. Lastly, Gary Owen, Chief Information Security Officer at iCapital, clears up misconceptions – found in responses to our latest LinkedIn poll – about financial institutions’ readiness to combat AI deepfake crimes.Do you or your clients have questions about alternative investments? Email yourquestion@icapitalnetwork.com for it to be answered anonymously on a future episode.

Q1 of 2024 saw the highest secondaries fundraising quarter since 2008.  Anastasia Amoroso breaks down how the growth in private equity secondaries is undercapitalized and unbalanced, but lack of available capital is NOT due to lack of investor interest. Watch Beyond 60/40 for more on private equity secondaries: https://video.icapital.com/detail/videos/market-insights/video/6354376797112/highest-fundraising-quarter-in-16-years?autoStart=true#PrivateEquity #Fundraising #Investing #AlternativeInvestments