ABOUT
Kasper Wichmann spent two decades inside global private equity: leveraged finance before the GFC, Credit Suisse and UBS in Switzerland, heading Asia Pacific for UBS asset management's PE arm out of Hong Kong, a stint at the Asian Development Bank, and building a fund-of-funds from scratch back home in Denmark. There he confronted the industry's core problem — the data is private, so there is no Bloomberg or Morningstar for private markets — and founded Balentic, an AI-powered platform digitizing how investors navigate them. Author of the razor-sharp PE Compass blog, he argues private equity isn't inherently evil, warns against 'democratization' as a marketing gimmick, and preaches looking for reasons to invest rather than reasons to fear. On episode 052 of Return on Identity he opens the black box of private markets.
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