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Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Jeff Patackville Director of Manager Research research for Morningstar Services. And I'm Christine Ben's director of personal finance for Morningstar. Our guest

this week is Adley Bowden. Adley is the vice president of market analysis at Pitchbook, which is a

Morning Star affiliate. In his role, Adley oversees Pitchbook's voluminous research and editorial

content on private markets,

including private equity, private debt, venture capital, real estate, as well as the vehicles

that invest in these areas. In addition, Adley is also a regular host of Pitchbook's

Invisible Capital podcast, which just kicked off its second season and is available on most popular podcast players.

Adley first joined pitchbook in 2008 and has served in a number of roles prior to assuming his current post.

He's a graduate of the University of Washington from which he earned his bachelor's degree in economics in international studies.

Adley, welcome to the Longview. Hi, Jeff. Hi, Christine. Thanks so

much for having me, long-time listeners. So excited to join the podcast with you all. Well, thanks so

much for joining us. We really appreciate it. So maybe for starters, at least some of our listeners

might not be familiar with Pitchbook. Can you talk about what the firm does and how you fit into that?

Certainly. So Pitchbook was founded in 2007, and really what we focus on is the private markets. So we think of ourselves as a financial information and technology provider for private equity, venture capital,

institutional investors allocating to the private markets, those asset classes,

as long as the ecosystem around the deals as well.

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