Ever heard of a Private Equity "search fund" aka entrepreneurship through acquisition?  Well, we hadn't either... until this episode!  Search funds are a relatively little-known but incredibly exciting and highly profitable niche within the private equity  investment space. Our guest, Nate Wasson, co-founder of growth equity firm Hal-Bar Partners, joins us to explain how Search Funds work and explore themes of entrepreneurship through acquisition.  We discuss everything ra...

44. Search Funds 101: The Best Kept Secret in Private Equity

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In the second of our three SALT iConnections interview series, we sat down with Ty Wallach, a living legend in the credit investing world.  Ty was a partner and portfolio manager at Oak Hill and Paulson, two of the most successful and famous names in investing over the past three decades, and is currently the CIO of Atlast Merchant Capital.We spoke with Ty about his role as an investor in both the debt and equity during the Caesar’s Palace Coup (check out episodes 39, 40 and 41 for a dee...

73. What It Takes to Be a Credit Investor with Ty Wallach

The Skinny On T+1 Settlement Changes, Citi's Fat Finger Trade, Hedge Fund fundraising woes, and Private Credit!Follow us on Instagram and Tik Tok at @thewallstreetskinnyhttps://www.instagram.com/thewallstreetskinny/

72. The Skinny On T+1 Settlement Change, Citi's Fat Finger Trade, Hedge Fund Fund Raising, and Private Credit

Live from SALT iConnections in NYC, we are joined by Anthony Scaramucci, a financial, political, and pop culture icon here in America.  Anthony worked at Goldman Sachs, is the founder of SkyBridge Capital (a global alternatives investment firm), and is the founder of the SALT iConnections cap intro conference...but is possibly most infamous for his 11 day stint as the White House Communications Director during the Trump administration. Particularly timely as many gear up for their summer...

71. From Wall Street to the White House and Back Feat. Anthony Scaramucci

We're BACK from a whirlwind 48 hours in NYC, fully rested and ready to give you the skinny on the latest in global markets.  First, a quick recap of our adventures at one of the world's largest cap intro conferences, where we got to chat with some of the industry's greatest thought leaders and meet new friends throughout the industry.  Next up, a quick note on today's Bloomberg article (linked below) discussing the decoupling of Gold and US Treasuries for the first time in 50 years....

70. The Skinny On NVDA's Stock Split, SALT iConnections Recap, and Gold Decoupling

We talk about Hedge Fund, Private Equity, and other "Alternative" Investment Funds all the time.  But we don't always stop to ask, "how do they get all their money?"  In this episode, we sat down with CEO of iConnections Ron Biscardi to explore the world of "Cap Intro": the ecosystem within which capital --- meaning, the money from pension funds, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, family offices etc --- gets allocated to fund managers in the Alts space.  We learn abo...

44. Search Funds 101: The Best Kept Secret in Private Equity

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