What does it take to support the next phase of private markets growth?

Bloomberg Professional Services

What is driving the convergence between public and private markets, and what does it take to support private markets as they continue to scale? How are investors navigating liquidity, risk, and portfolio construction as allocations to private assets increase? 

Brad Foster, Head of Fixed Income and Private Markets at Bloomberg, was featured in an episode of the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, to discuss the market structure evolution currently underway in private markets.  

Drawing on Bloomberg’s 40-year history of helping shape the public fixed income market, Foster explores the data, technology, and infrastructure necessary to give investors the confidence to manage and scale their private market allocations. He highlights why the industry must establish a unified taxonomy and fundamental data elements, like security, entity and fund master data, to achieve true interoperability across public and private portfolios. 

Foster also explains how Bloomberg is applying its public-markets discipline to private markets through its strategic partnerships and suite of solutions helping investors screen for private funds, monitor public and private corporate credit deal flow, perform relative value comparisons,  evaluate performance and risk, benchmark strategies, and track breaking news and research on private markets. 

Ultimately, Foster says the key question is whether investors have the infrastructure and data in place to capture the growth of private markets in the coming years. 

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This recording is reproduced from Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. It is licensed by Bloomberg.