Ian Charles

10 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 6, 2021 by Ian Charles · said 9 times in 4 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Dec 6, 2021
Insight
Forced selling impairs long-term asset returns by establishing depressed transaction comps
“Forced selling is one of the ways you impair long-term returns. If you go through a phase of forced selling, you get bad prints and it suppresses price appreciation until you can get inertia back in a positive direction.”
Ian Charles Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 38:34 Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
Dec 6, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Real estate development surrounding sports venues is a $50 billion opportunity
“Then you've got all of the real estate around the venue. It's a massive 20 to fifty billion dollar opportunity over the next five to 10 years.”
Ian Charles Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 59:39 Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
Dec 6, 2021 bullish
Opinion
Major North American sports leagues are standalone $25B to $150B businesses
“These leagues by themselves should be valued anywhere between 25 and one hundred and fifty billion dollars by themselves.”
Ian Charles Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 26:22 Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
Dec 6, 2021 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pro sports franchises returned 12% to 14% annually over 20 years
“It has a correlation to traditional asset classes in the U.S. Of between -.2 and positive .3. And over the last 20 years has generated Compounded returns of 12 to 14% per year, which is about a 500 basis point premia to the S&P 500.”
Ian Charles Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 40:15 Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
Dec 6, 2021 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Research shows 90% of alternative asset managers generate no excess return
“And if you look at the research, I think it's something like 90% of the managers in alternatives don't create any excess return. Not a fee and carry.”
Ian Charles Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 1:07:48 Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
Dec 6, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
North American sports leagues restrict franchise debt to an average 14% LTV
“So an owner is not allowed to use their team as a piece of collateral on a loan. And the leagues regulate maximum leverage at the franchise level to the point at which across the big four North American leagues, the average loan to value is about 13, 14%, whic…”
Ian Charles Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 39:23 Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
Dec 6, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Tech and finance executives comprise 60% of new sports team owners
“So if you look at control ownership transactions over the last decade, I think something like 60, 65% of the new control owners in North American pro sports have either come from the technology sector or finance.”
Ian Charles Dec 6, 2021 ▶ 22:44 Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
Feb 10, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Charles: The private equity asset class is currently 10% overvalued
“We think the asset class today is overvalued by about 10%.”
Ian Charles Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 37:49 Ian Charles - Private Equity's New Rules (EP.431)
Feb 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Charles: Only a third of mega PE firms have true competitive advantages
“If you have firm level OCAs that are transferable across strategies and across markets, you can be a high conviction alpha generator across products Across industries, size strata, but it is rare. I bet only about a third of those level nine and level 10 firms…”
Ian Charles Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 39:27 Ian Charles - Private Equity's New Rules (EP.431)
Feb 10, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Charles: Some PE Wealth Products Will Deliver Expensive Beta, Not Alpha
“If the packaging costs more than the alpha, then we're just selling people a bunch of really expensive beta, and that's not good. I think some firms are going to do a really great job helping bring some of the benefits of this asset class to a much broader par…”
Ian Charles Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 40:34 Ian Charles - Private Equity's New Rules (EP.431)
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