Objectives
A private equity entrepreneur who had created significant wealth from successfully investing in individual companies wanted to diversify assets in an effort to educe concentration risk, provide long term legacy plan for his family and to protect and grow capital base.. Clients prior advisor was a well-known financial institution that did not offer beyond traditional investments, and client wanted a larger less correlated opportunity set. Client had 5 primary goals:
Client had 5 primary goals:
1. Preserve and grow capital
2. Take advantage of alternative investments in addition to public equites and fixed income
3. Have a foundation of assets to achieve peace of mind – creating the opportunity to focus on core business (higher risk/reward private equity opportunities and best use of his time)
4. Create flexibility in balance sheet via borrowing facilities
5. Source new professional relationships to meet increasingly complex personal and professional balance sheet.