
explore the fundamentals and regulatory challenges of marketing a fund, outline key channels and materials, and warn against traps to attract qualified investors with transparent, sophisticated communications.
Examine the context of fund marketing for aifms, including hedge funds and private equity, debunk myths about secrecy, clarify marketing versus pre-marketing, and outline regulator considerations and reverse solicitation.
Master multi-channel fund marketing by leveraging events, partnerships, PR, newsletters, and social media, with a strong investors page and targeted email updates to attract allocators.
Discover how fund marketing materials, including portfolio updates and market opinions, convey an investment process and philosophy, showcase track records and team profiles, and present simplified terms to attract allocators.
Position your fund for success by dedicating exclusive resources to marketing, avoiding errors in materials, and using multiple channels to educate allocators and align with their goals.
Explore the three p's—performance, processes, and persuasion—as a framework for selling a fund, balancing returns with institutional quality operations and effective negotiation techniques.
Explore standard and bespoke provisions that shape investment attractiveness, including hurdle rates, management and carry fees, hold periods, key person terms, GP commitment, MFN clauses, and side letters.
Learn strategic and in the room negotiation tactics to gain leverage with allocators, including changing allocation size and order, empathy, mental effort, and handling tough questions.
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Explore how appearance, image, and credentials create presence in finance, while confidence and high-status reactions signal authority. Learn to balance image and behavior to sustain influence.
Achieve harmony by aligning internal and external congruence, flowing without self-conflict, whether presenting or communicating, and addressing external, internal shallow, and internal deep obstacles.
Rigidity hinges on being specific about what you tolerate, setting rules and boundaries to boost presence. By defining high standards and enforcing personal boundaries, you become memorable and more loyal.
Cultivate presence by embracing tension and activeness: speak minimally, act selectively, hold intense eye contact, use silence and cadence, and project a forceful, high-status frame to win frame battles.
Master how tension and selectiveness shape institutional fundraising, maintaining a strong frame under allocator scrutiny, and signaling disciplined use of capital by being selective about opportunities, people, and investments.
Understand how hedge funds differ from private equity and other alternatives. Compare open-end liquidity, LP/GP structure, and performance fees, and note mark-to-market valuations, capital calls, gates, and multi-strategy use.
Learn how traders, portfolio managers, and analysts generate ideas, craft investment theses, and execute trades within a hedge fund, with capital size and investor demands shaping outcomes.
Learn how event-driven strategies profit from predicting or triggering corporate events, such as mergers and bankruptcies, through merger arbitrage, activism, and private issue strategies.
Position private equity as an alternative asset class and distinguish it from venture capital, hedge funds, and investment banking, emphasizing diversification and rigorous due diligence in leveraged buyouts.
Source opportunities, invest capital, and monitor portfolio companies within a private equity fund. Understand how the sourcing, investing, and monitoring stages shape the j-curve returns and value creation.
Explore leveraged buyouts, where private equity borrows to acquire a company, ruthlessly optimizes operations, focuses on cash flow, due diligence, and a four to five year value creation plan.
Fundamentals of Private Debt is a 3-hour course covering the private debt market, including the debt instruments, investment types, as well as the fundamentals of debt itself.
If the following videos seem interesting, find the full course here:
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(Due to changes in my equipment over time, please forgive a possible different video/audio quality in this course).
Mezzanine debt sits between bank debt and equity, offering flexible covenants. It's unsecured and subordinated, commands higher interest, and serves bespoke middle-market financing or substitutes for high-yield bonds.
Explore infrastructure debt as a low risk, low reward financing for developing, expanding, or maintaining utilities and transportation assets, often public or private, with long-term horizons.
Explore covenants in loan agreements, including affirmative, negative, and financial covenants, with maintenance and incurrence concepts, use of proceeds, disclosures, and risk management through derivatives.
RAISING YOUR KNOWLEDGE TO RAISE YOUR FUND
You may know that alternative asset funds, such as hedge funds or private equity funds, are some of the most profitable and competitive in the industry.
But one area that doesn't receive much focus is the fundraising process itself.
Raising funds (usually, from institutions) is a very secretive and exclusive process, and knowledge of it is hasn't been public for some time.
That is, until now.
In this course, we will shed light on how institutional fundraising works.
How funds are marketed, sold, how information is provided in data rooms, what is actually sold, and how allocations are closed.
And when they are, how specific provisions such as fees, key-person events, and bespoke provisions in side letters, such as MFN clauses, are negotiated.
THE PERFECT COURSE... FOR WHOM?
This course is targeted, naturally, at anyone who wants to master the fundamentals of the private equity industry.
More specifically, the ideal student for this course is someone who:
Wants to learn more about how private equity funds/hedge funds are created, raised and negotiated;
Wants to know all the possible provisions that can be negotiated when an investment is made in a fund;
Wants to know more about alternative asset funds in general;
LET ME TELL YOU... EVERYTHING
Some people - including me - love to know what they're getting in a package.
And by this, I mean, EVERYTHING that is in the package.
So, here is a list of everything that this course covers:
The institutional fundraising process, from fund marketing, to information providing in data rooms, to due diligence and allocation;
The context of fund marketing, including myths such as that keeping funds hidden will not attract regulator attention or will make the fund manager have "mystique" and exclusiveness, to actual regulatory roadblocks to fund marketing;
The usual fund marketing channels and materials, from simplified versions of fund offering documents, interviews/features with the fund management team and CEOs, periodic updates and others;
How to actually sell a fund to an allocator using the PPP model (performance, processes and persuasion). Focusing on performance, on the sophistication of processes (ideally, institutional-quality), but also leveraging my unique persuasion tools to better convince investors;
What type of standard and bespoke provisions investors usually request, from changes in fees (management fees, performance fees, co-investment fees, many others), to complex clauses related to investment restrictions, secondaries sales, transparency requirements, fund financing restrictions, GP commit and devotion, GP removal rights, among others;
How to negotiate provisions with allocators, from strategic tactics such as reducing allocation size or breaking up syndicated groups of investors, to "in-the-room" tactics such as Implementation Intention or empathy to disarm the other side and make them more receptive;
MY INVITATION TO YOU
Remember that you always have a 30-day money-back guarantee, so there is no risk for you.
Also, I suggest you make use of the free preview videos to make sure the course really is a fit. I don't want you to waste your money.
If you think this course is a fit and can take your knowledge of PE to the next level... it would be a pleasure to have you as a student.
See on the other side!