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In February 2024, we released an episode titled “Investing in Essential UK Social Infrastructure”, with the Founder & CEO of Newcore Capital, Hugo Llewelyn.
In this episode, we wanted to reacquaint investors with the thesis and discuss why the investment opportunity might be so compelling. Hugo explains where capital is scarce, where private assets are blocked and where opportunities exist.
He describes the four areas of their focus; healthcare, education, transport and civic, and where cash-strapped local authorities and government arms need to increasingly find solutions by working with the private sector.
Hugo details the priorities in execution, their targeted returns, why local authority pension funds and family offices have been important investors and why real estate is a very accessible way of investing in infrastructure.
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For the last 30 years, private equity has been an increasingly popular destination for both institutional and HNW capital.
As its reach has extended across multiple industries and geographies, the questions over where value is actually created have been increasing.
Riccardo Basile, a former engineer, then management consultant, and for the last decade with Permira, deconstructs what is mean by “value creation”.
He explains the levers pulled and analysis used. Specifically, he addresses pricing, digital acceleration, organisational redesign, and commercial excellence in their portfolio companies, aimed at driving growth and performance.
He discusses why companies partner with Permira, when managements might need to change, which industries are most fertile for their approach and their thinking around exits and uplifts, why, when, and how.
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As the world fragments into what Ocean Wall calls a ‘Molecular War’, a contest fought not with armies but with atoms, isotopes, and the other materials that underpin modern industry, the indispensable ingredient is energy and within this, the role of nuclear is being more widely understood.
Ocean Wall has been early and vocal in arguing that uranium sits in the same strategic bucket as helium, tungsten, and metallurgical coal, assets whose scarcity, indispensability, and geopolitical chokepoints create asymmetric investment opportunities.
Ben explains the supply and demand dynamics of Uranium; He describes where the shortfalls exist, and both traditional and now additional new demand from the financial community. He shines the light on Chinese nuclear build outs at a rate unimaginable in the West, Japan’s rapprochement with Nuclear, Indian ambitions to build reactors, and all of this before strategic reserves are built at National levels.
Ben then explains the FiveT Nuclear Fund, where Ocean Wall is investment advisor. He describes the investment process, the investable options, liquidity, structure, costs and size.
In short, he explains why they feel we are still at the foothills of an important Uranium bull market.
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Pacific Asset Management is an intriguing study in developing an investment manager in today’s world. A business born from the Beckwith family’s long tradition of creating successful asset management firm, less than 10 years from inception it now manages over $20 billion.
Matt discusses the problems which they felt the investment industry wasn’t solving. He describes how the business was built without legacy systems, or legacy cost structures, and how they combine both multi-asset solutions and high conviction managers, supported by significant investments in technology.
He describes the steps to build “a home not a platform”, how they identify mangers and styles using the lens of provenance, less-loved strategies and scalability. He explains how they were able to develop such a foothold in the over-supplied multi asset space.
Finally, he discusses the trends within asset management, from a consolidation of asset owners, to why margin erosion need not be ubiquitous, and to why the proliferation of model portfolios may make marginal capital move quicker than ever before.
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*Recorded 4th March 2026
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