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Ron Biscardi

Co-Founder and CEO, iConnections · 3 appearances on the record.

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Ron Biscardi is the co-founder and CEO of iConnections, an institutional capital introduction platform and alternative investment event organizer. He previously co-founded Context Capital Partners and Context Summits, where he led alternative fund seeding deals.

28statements → 11claims → 2claims resolved → 3.79/5average certainty → 1.89/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 15said about them ↓

2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 9 not checkable as stated how the 11 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 9 assertions · 4 opinions · 10 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 11 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 9 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ron argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Biscardi: Hedge fund performance dispersion is far wider than traditional equities
“If you look at the dispersion between, in particular categories in the hedge fund space, it is much, much larger than the dispersion in traditional markets, like long only, for example. You'll see a much tighter performance band in the traditional asset classe…”
Ron Biscardi Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 27:45 Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Ron Biscardi on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Ron Biscardi said on Capital Allocators that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Biscardi: Emerging managers face multi-year sales cycles versus established mega funds
“The truth is, this business is such a long sales cycle. You can come here and have 20 or 30 meetings. You may not get an allocation from any of those investors for years. If you're a really big, well-established manager, it's probably less than 12 months. If y…”
Ron Biscardi Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 13:48 Ron Biscardi – Inside iConnections Global Alts (EP.367)
Disclosure
Biscardi: Context Capital averages $20M to $30M per hedge fund seed deal
“We've probably done average seed deals of 20 to thirty million in general.”
Ron Biscardi Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 16:20 Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Biscardi: Investors rank process as the top criterion in fund surveys
“In our investor surveys, investors Constantly put that as the number one or number two most important criteria when they're evaluating a fund.”
Ron Biscardi Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 18:49 Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)
Disclosure
Biscardi: Context Capital structures partnerships via joint ventures or revenue shares
“In some cases, we've actually co-owned the GP and the management company, and it is a legitimate joint venture. And in other situations, we've done it as more of a revenue share and then provided those services back.”
Ron Biscardi Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 19:59 Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)

The other half of the tape: Ron Biscardi's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 15 times in 12 episodes on Capital Allocators. every mention, with the transcript →

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2024 10 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode

Appearances (3)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ron Biscardi and Katie O'Reilly - Maximizing Value at Conferences (EP.425) Jan 6, 2025 10m
Ron Biscardi – Inside iConnections Global Alts (EP.367) Feb 8, 2024 17m
Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83) Jan 21, 2019 30m

Played on the show (1)

Episodes where a recording of Ron Biscardi was played rather than Ron taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

EpisodeDateOn tapeWhat it is
Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55) Jun 4, 2018 60s clip played
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