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October 26, 202650 min

From a $1B Hedge Fund to Perscient | Ben Hunt

Ben Hunt is Co-Founder and President of Perscient, an AI research and software company that measures the narratives driving markets, and the creator of Epsilon Theory. Previously, he ran a long/short equity fund of around $1 billion, served as chief strategist and chief risk officer at Salient Partners, and was a tenured political science professor. We discuss how he spotted the single assumption behind the mortgage crisis, why value investing stopped working, the common knowledge game that moves markets, the risks of narrative-driven funds, why you should choose your investors carefully, how LLMs made Perscient possible, and why AI has become too big to fail. Learn more about Ben and Perscient below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhunt/ https://x.com/EpsilonTheory https://www.panoptica.com/?&from_src=epsilontheory Subscribe to Deepwell: https://deepwellco.substack.com (00:00) Intro (00:47) Growing up in Alabama (02:04) Political science and computer science at Vanderbilt (03:54) Predicting conflict from newspapers at Harvard (06:36) From professor to hedge fund manager (10:47) The assumption behind the mortgage crisis (12:35) Giving the money back and joining Salient (16:04) Why he started Epsilon Theory (19:28) The common knowledge game (23:21) The Emperor's New Clothes and the Biden debate (26:00) Narrative funds and the billion-dollar PDF (32:23) Why scale is so hard today (33:47) Raising money for Perscient (38:46) Choosing investors on the same timeline (39:21) Why LLMs made Perscient possible (42:06) Is AI too big to fail? (47:55) Story all the way down

October 6, 202641 min

Inside the $185 Billion Multi-Family Office | Simon Krinsky, Pathstone

Simon Krinsky is Regional Executive Managing Director at Pathstone, a partner-owned multi-family office with more than $185 billion in aggregate assets, where he oversees the New York and San Francisco offices. Previously, he was a Managing Partner at Hall Capital Partners, which combined with Pathstone in 2024, and began his career at Goldman Sachs. Learn more about Simon and Pathstone below:https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonkrinsky/https://pathstone.com/people/simon-krinsky/https://pathstone.comSubscribe to Deepwell: https://deepwellco.substack.com (00:00) Intro (00:45) From South Africa to Philadelphia (04:09) Economics at Amherst (06:12) Starting on Goldman's convertibles desk (10:09) Private wealth in San Francisco (13:09) Why he joined Katie Hall (15:48) Why Hall combined with Pathstone (19:15) Investment firm vs family office (20:39) Running one firm, not regional businesses (23:12) Why Willow Street stays independent (25:27) Working alongside single family offices (28:26) Why open architecture builds trust (29:25) Building 15-year client relationships (31:29) Their 40-person research team (33:18) Moving fast on co-investments (35:12) How Pathstone picks its acquisitions (37:12) What they look for in a manager (39:05) The path to a trillion-dollar firm

October 2, 202655 min

The $1.2 Trillion CLO Market | Shiloh Bates, Flat Rock Global

Shiloh Bates is the Chief Investment Officer of Flat Rock Global, an alternative credit manager with about $1.6 billion in assets under management across three interval funds. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Benefit Street Partners and Head of Structured Products at BDCA Adviser. He is the author of CLO Investing and host of The CLO Investor Podcast. We discuss how CLOs work, why CLO equity has disappointed over the last two years, how to compare CLO managers, why captive equity funds have hurt the market, what private credit CLOs do differently, and why he sees value in CLO equity and BB notes today. Learn more about Shiloh and Flat Rock Global: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiloh-bates-186ab28/ https://flatrockglobal.com Read Shiloh's book, CLO Investing: With an Emphasis on CLO Equity & BB Notes: https://www.amazon.com/CLO-Investing-Emphasis-Equity-Notes/dp/1642376566 Listen to The CLO Investor Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-clo-investor-podcast/id1738052032 Subscribe to Deepwell: https://deepwellco.substack.com (00:00) Intro (01:21) From political science to finance (04:10) Learning CLOs on day one at First Union (05:00) How a CLO works like a simplified bank (07:43) When CLOs were a backwater (09:11) Equity returns through leverage (11:38) Why CLO equity has disappointed (18:32) Six-month call protection, locked financing (21:29) How to compare CLO managers (29:02) How CLO equity gets marked daily (33:00) The problem with captive equity funds (38:11) What CLO ETFs mean for AAAs (41:05) Why BDC and interval fund redemptions are rising (45:32) Private credit CLOs vs broadly syndicated (49:56) What he's watching into 2027

September 21, 20261 hr 14 min

How Families Govern, Allocate and Pass On Wealth | Stephan Roche, BanyanGlobal

Stephan Roche is the Managing Partner of BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors, a Boston-based firm that has guided more than 250 family ownership groups across six continents on succession, governance and family office strategy since 2012. Roche first worked with Banyan as a client, joined as a partner in 2025, and was elected Managing Partner in May 2026. He previously served as CEO of Walton Enterprises, the Walton family office, and COO of Cascade Asset Management, the investment office for Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation. As CEO of Sempervirens Fund, the venture firm that grew out of a family business whose board he sat on, he pushed the team to deliver cash rather than paper returns, reaching roughly 0.9x DPI on an eight-year-old vintage. He began his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble and in strategy consulting, and holds a BA from Princeton and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Learn more about Stephan and BanyanGlobal below: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanroche/⁠ ⁠ https://banyan.global/⁠ Subscribe to Deepwell: ⁠https://deepwellco.substack.com

July 28, 202638 min

Harbor Capital’s $70B Multi-Manager Platform | Kristof Gleich

Kristof Gleich is the President and CIO of Harbor Capital Advisors, a $70B multi-manager platform headquartered in Chicago that partners exclusively with external fund managers to build and distribute actively managed strategies – a model the firm has operated since 1986. Gleich joined Harbor in 2018 after nearly two decades at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, where he ran a 60-person global manager research team overseeing $500B in assets. His focus has been bringing the firm's active management expertise from mutual funds into ETFs – translating what he describes as "potential energy into kinetic energy." Since 2021, Harbor has launched 30+ active ETFs and grown ETF AUM from zero to $5B, anchored by long-standing partnerships like Jennison Associates (52-year relationship) alongside emerging managers like BlueCove (systematic fixed income out of London) and Quantix (commodities, founded by a former Goldman partner). The commodities ETF, HGER, surpassed $1B by rethinking index construction from first principles – building inflation sensitivity, backwardation capture, and debasement hedging into the methodology rather than tracking legacy benchmarks like BCOM. Gleich is bullish on gold and commodities as structural portfolio holdings, arguing that record global debt, fiscal deficits in expanding economies, deglobalization, and central bank reserve diversification make the standard 60/40 allocation obsolete – advocating 10–20% alternatives exposure with commodities playing a central role. 2024 marked an inflection year with $4B in net inflows, and Gleich sees Harbor approaching the "superscaling" phase while emphasizing the cultural imperative to keep disrupting before competitors do it for you. Learn more about Kristof and Harbor Capital below: linkedin.com/in/kristof-gleich/ harborcapital.com

July 20, 202627 min

Managing $18B as Co-CIO at RockCreek | Alifia Doriwala

Alifia Doriwala is the Co-Chief Investment Officer at The Rock Creek Group, a $18B+ outsourced CIO platform in Washington, DC that serves as the full investment team for endowments, foundations, pensions, and family offices without internal portfolio management capabilities. Doriwala joined Rock Creek when it was a 15-person, $2B multi-asset shop and helped build the OCIO business from inception roughly 15 years ago – a practice that now houses the majority of the firm's capital. She previously worked in investment banking at Merrill Lynch and equity arbitrage at Wolverine Trading. Rock Creek constructs bespoke total-portfolio allocations for each client, calibrating alternatives exposure around spending objectives, drawdown tolerance, and organizational mission. Up to 10% of private equity exposure goes to co-investments and directs, selected thematically to align with client mandates – education foundations get education-adjacent deal flow, healthcare organizations get life sciences exposure. Commitment pacing is treated as "more art than science," with annual budgets flexed around distribution assumptions and opportunity quality rather than rigid targets. Current deployment priorities span biotech venture (including oncology-specific funds), fintech focused on financial inclusion, AI infrastructure and applications, and middle-market buyout where AI tools drive efficiency across traditional industries. The firm runs longstanding emerging manager programs – including a 15+ year partnership with Connecticut's pension system – and has co-authored research with IFC on gender balance in private equity. Underpinning the platform is a proprietary technology stack built from day one, now on its tenth major iteration, housing 25 years of investment data. Learn more about Alifia and Rock Creek below: linkedin.com/in/alifia-doriwala therockcreekgroup.com

July 14, 202634 min

Fairview Capital's $10B Emerging Manager Ecosystem | Alan Mattamana

Alan Mattamana is the Managing Partner at Fairview Capital Partners, a $10B fund-of-funds founded in 1994 as one of the largest minority-owned investment firms in the US. After Princeton engineering, McKinsey, and Polaris Venture Partners, he joined Fairview in 2009 and ascended to Managing Partner in 2024, leading the firm's co-investment program. Fairview commits to 15-25 managers per vehicle using equal-weighted portfolios (~60% venture, ~40% growth/buyout), staged across 3-5 year tranches for vintage diversification. The firm's proprietary database tracks 600+ diverse and emerging managers, combining quantitative benchmarking with exhaustive reference checks. Mattamana allocates 10-20% to late-stage co-investments (Series B+) through GP advisory board relationships, concentrating capital in de-risked winners at reduced fee drag. As anchor LP for first- and second-time funds, Fairview backs 300+ funds representing 10,000+ companies. Strategic partnerships include New York Life's 2024 minority stake, Steve Ballmer's $400M commitment for Black fund managers, and the Ford/Visa Foundations Emerging Managers Fund. Connecticut's Constitution Fund series delivered 30% IRR in top vintages, with fees compressed from 0.8% to 0.65% as the program scaled. Learn more about Alan and Fairview below: linkedin.com/in/alanmattamana/ Fairview Capital

July 5, 202644 min

Behind GREE LP's US–Japan Fund of Funds | Youngrok Kim

Youngrok Kim is the Founding Partner of GREE LP Fund, a $170M bicultural fund-of-funds split between US and Japan vehicles, built on a contrarian timing thesis: Asia-Pacific's venture markets are at their 2010 moment, when cloud/mobile minted Andreessen Horowitz and Initialized Capital, and AI's platform shift will produce the next generation of iconic regional franchises. Structured as separate mandates rather than commingled capital, GREE LP commits to 20+ managers per fund at the sub-$50M threshold where collaborative check sizes eliminate brand competition. Portfolio spans established platforms (NFX, Future Ventures) and first-time GPs selected for strategy-fit over pedigree: former GitLab CMO doing DevTools seed, ex-Palantir operators with 150-person deal sourcing networks. Nine of ten deployed funds exceed median TVPI despite <3-year vintages. The platform allocates 10-15% to late-stage co-investments and LP secondaries as liquidity architecture, targeting first distributions within five years to smooth cash flow curves before primary exits mature. Learn more about Youngrok and GREE LP below: linkedin.com/in/youngrok-kim/ GREE LP Fund

June 29, 20261 hr 3 min

Building Europe’s first Micro-VC FoF | Ertan Can

Ertan Can is the founder and managing partner of Multiple Capital, a pan-European micro-VC fund-of-funds targeting seed-stage emerging managers. Launched inside a family office in 2012 and spun out in 2018, Multiple mapped Europe's emerging manager ecosystem early, backing solo GPs across deep tech, AI, fintech, and defense. The fund has committed to 30+ micro-VCs with indirect exposure to 1,000+ startups, delivering top-decile performance with outliers like UiPath. Multiple's edge combines rigorous manager selection at sub-institutional fund sizes with European valuation arbitrage and US-scale exit paths. Operating from Luxembourg for institutional readiness, the fund maintains disciplined €1M check sizes and targets managers with demonstrable unfair advantages and concentrated portfolio construction. Learn more about Ertan and Multiple Capital below: linkedin.com/in/ertancan/ multiple.capital/

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