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Expert: Claire Smith - Bryce is on the hunt for a private equity manager

Season 9

Today’s guest is Claire Smith, Head of Private Assets Sales, Australia and New Zealand at Schroders (a global active investment manager).


Over the last few months we’ve been doing more and more content focussed on private equity. The returns are compelling and the opportunities are interesting. And with fewer and fewer public listings each year, it seems having some exposure to private equity could be a good idea. 


In this episode I (Bryce) am on the hunt for a private equity manager in my portfolio, and I’m sitting down with Claire to understand how Schroders approach PE, and their place in the market. 


In today’s episode we cover: 

  • How private equity markets are structured and segmented
  • The fallacy that to get good returns you need to invest with the big end of town
  • How having too much money is actually hurting the big players
  • Schroder’s semi-liquid, open-ended PE fund, and how it might work in my portfolio
  • Some examples of investments that Schroders are making
  • Where Claire thinks the PE industry will be in 10 years

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