Why Now’s the Time to Lean into Small Market Buyouts

StepStone Reflections on Private Markets

When the economy shrinks, institutions tend to seek reassurance from larger, more established private equity fund managers. This comes at the expense of small, emerging and by extension, diverse managers, which some regard as riskier than their larger, “more proven” counterparts. In this episode of RPM, Daniel Krikorian, a principal on our private equity team, joins co-host Michael Venne to discuss why investors should fight the urge to cut back on SBO and if anything, lean in. They discuss:

  • Attractive features of SBO (01:30);
  • Market volatility’s effect on SBO (11:30);
  • Challenges SBO can present (16:46); and
  • How diversity ties into SBO (19:44).

Read the transcript here.

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StepStone Group
StepStone Group

StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) is a global private markets investment firm focused on providing customized investment solutions and advisory and data services to our clients. StepStone’s clients include some of the world’s largest public and private defined benefit and defined contribution pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies, as well as prominent endowments, foundations, family offices and private wealth clients, which include high-net-worth and mass affluent individuals. StepStone partners with its clients to develop and build private markets portfolios designed to meet their specific objectives across the private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate asset classes.

W. Casey Gildea
Managing Director casey.gildea@stepstonegroup.com
+1.212.351.6114

https://www.stepstonegroup.com/
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New York, NY 10017

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