JF 4074: Private Credit Confidence, Checklist Investing and Real Fund Analysis with Pascal Wagner

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Best Ever CRE

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Pascal Wagner reveals his full due diligence process for evaluating private debt and credit funds. Drawing on his experience managing over $150 million as a venture capitalist and investing $3.3 million of his own capital across 23 private deals, Pascal shares the real questions professional investors ask before wiring money. He explains how to identify red flags in fund structures, analyze leverage and default rates, and evaluate manager credibility through a systematic, repeatable vetting process. Get 50% Off Monarch Money, the all-in-one financial tool at www.monarchmoney.com with code BESTEVER Join the Best Ever Community The Best Ever Community is live and growing - and we want serious commercial real estate investors like you inside. It’s free to join, but you must apply and meet the criteria. Connect with top operators, LPs, GPs, and more, get real insights, and be part of a curated network built to help you grow. Apply now at ⁠www.bestevercommunity.com⁠ Podcast production done by ⁠Outlier Audio⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.6	Let me ask you a question.
0:45.4	Have you ever found a deal that looks incredible?
0:49.0	It's got a big IRA, it's got a polished deck, a slick operator who answers all your questions and still thought,
0:55.5	why does this deal make me feel nervous to wire money?
1:00.1	And you're not crazy.
1:01.9	This hesitation is what saves investors when they're thinking about doing a deal.
1:07.7	But it also is the same feeling that traps them. Because the truth is,
1:13.8	is that most people don't feel confident investing. And it's not because the deals are bad.
1:22.1	It's because they've never learned how to actually vet them. They don't know what to ask. They don't know where the
1:31.1	risk hides, and they've never compared enough opportunities to see the patterns. And so they either
1:38.8	freeze or they do the deal and trust the wrong person. And both outcomes cost them years and sometimes
1:47.4	hundreds of thousands of dollars. And so if that's ever been you staring at a deal and not
1:53.9	knowing what questions to ask, this episode today is going to be a game changer. And I'm going to
1:58.7	walk you through my real due diligence
2:01.8	checklist, the same exact questions that I use specifically when vetting private debt and
2:09.2	credit funds. And by the end of this episode, you're going to know exactly how professional
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