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“You could try to replicate this, but it would take many, many years to replicate this business, and you can't replicate several hundred relationships overnight.”

“They're providing equity and credit capital to companies that 10 years ago would have been publicly traded. That is the upper middle market.”

“There's a lot of capital out there, and capital has become more and more of a commodity. Everyone in that ecosystem, you need to prove why you're not just a commoditized Piece of capital.”

“As with all forms of credit. It's not just someone who can source and originate and underwrite credit, but also someone who can deal with problems when they arise and credit problems always arise.”

“Somebody who says, well, I like to be long, high quality companies and short, poor quality companies. Well, I wouldn't mind being long a poor quality company if it's going to get better, if I have a variant view on that and vice versa.”

“If you look at the sheer amount of economic activity, US GDP going from 11, 12 trillion of GDP pre-great financial crisis to 30 trillion today. The number of banks and the consolidation in banks and their move away from lending to private companies and middle …”

“The bigger risks revolve around this idea of management of expectations, ensuring that why investors are embracing this match up with what can be delivered. It's awareness, education, and expectations management where it has the greatest surface area for risk.”

“Still to this day, there aren't many firms that are well equipped to bring their offerings to the private wealth market.”