Private Markets

Written in accessible language, Private Markets: Building Better Portfolios with Private Equity, Private Credit, and Private Real Estate addresses the challenges and opportunities with investing in the private markets, including understanding the merits of the asset classes—private equity, private credit, and private real estate—product evolution, and the structural tradeoffs, and how to incorporate these versatile and valuable tools in client portfolios.

Editors H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Halil Kiymaz, and their coauthors examine PE and provide important insights about topics such as major types of PE (venture capital, leveraged buyouts, mezzanine capital, and distressed debt investments), how PE works, performance and measurement, uses and structure, and trends in the market. Listeners can gain an in-depth understanding about PE from academics and practitioners from around the world.

Private companies like Facebook, Uber, and Robinhood were once inaccessible to everyday investors. Historically, buying and selling shares in private firms has been complex and limited. However, the expansion of the private market is now within reach. As this shift unfolds, regulators worldwide are working to safeguard investors eager to enter this evolving space. This book explores the regulatory, technical, and societal hurdles in opening this asset class to a broader audience.

Wouldn't life be better if you were free of the daily grind - the conventional job and boss - and instead, succeeded or failed purely on the merits of your own investment choices? Free Capital is a window into this world. Based on a series of interviews, it outlines the investing strategies, wisdom, and lifestyles of 12 highly successful private investors. Each of them has accumulated £1 million or more - in most cases, considerably more - mainly from stock market investment.

In Invest Like a Barbarian, Ross Butler will show how you can Share in the spoils of a Private Markets revolution. The book explains why private equity is not a new idea–it follows ancient investment principles, forgotten in age of liquidity and high-frequency trading. It explains how the rise of private credit is a hugely under-appreciated secular phenomenon that will allow individuals–not just banks–to become the lenders and financiers of the third industrial revolution.

Introducing Alternative Investments 101, your one-stop shop to fully understand what the deal is with crowdfunding, commodity investing, cryptocurrencies, precious metals, real estate, and even collectibles! According to Blackrock, alternative assets are projected to earn more than 30-40 percent returns annually! This is in comparison to the 7 percent returns that the stock market has historically yielded. If you're not investing in alternatives, you're missing out!

Private lending is an exciting opportunity for anyone looking for ways to put capital to work in real estate without lifting a hammer, showing a house, or fixing a toilet. Benefit from Jeff Levin's deep experience in the industry and learn how to minimize your risk, make successful loans, and earn safe and consistent returns through private lending.