This is episode 5 of Money Talks, our series on sport’s relationship with finance, venture capital and private equity. Our guest is Marcus John, CEO of Sports Capital Advisors based in Singapore, who was an early stage investor in Formula E and Extreme E and advises private equity funds and family offices on sports investment strategy and execution.Marcus was previously at IMG, during the Teddy Forstmann buyout in 2004 and so we talk about the impact of that moment both on IMG but on the sports industry as a whole. Then we talk about the market for sports investment advice as new money in Asia’s largest economies chases high value European and North American sports IP and we ask what the challenges and the implications of sport’s ever closer relationship with private finance.If you enjoy our podcasts, you’ll love the weekly Unofficial Newsletter that goes deeper in to the themes and topics we talk about in the pod. Head to UnofficialPartner.com and sign up.

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