David Conrod on Successor Funds and Growth Equity (Podcast)
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with David Conrod, who is co-founder and chief executive officer of FocusPoint Private Capital Group. Prior to co-founding FocusPoint — which raises capital for private equity, credit, real estate, real assets and direct transactions in developed and emerging markets — Conrod was a senior managing director at Guggenheim Partners, where he established its private fund group, obtaining more than $7 billion of fund allocations for general partnerships external to the firm.
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| 0:51.0 | This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, David Conrod, |
| 0:56.0 | what a fascinating career in the world of capital raising and private equity |
| 1:02.0 | from Guggenheim partners to a focus point capital. |
| 1:05.0 | He really has seen just a little bit of everything and is very, very knowledgeable about |
| 1:12.0 | how that side of the investment world works. |
| 1:15.0 | If you're at all interested in a variety of diversified and non-correlated strategies, |
| 1:21.0 | what it's like raising capital for both emerging and existing managers |
| 1:26.0 | and playing in the world of credit, lease backs, music industry, royalty funding, |
| 1:33.0 | as well as traditional private equity, you're going to find this to be absolutely fascinating. |
| 1:38.0 | With no further ado, my conversation with focus point private capital groups |
| 1:44.0 | David Conrod. |
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