Dowling: Allocator due diligence will permanently shift to hybrid virtual-in-person models
Greg Dowling · Greg Dowling – Mid-Market Institutional Consulting at FEG (Capital Allocators, EP.248) · May 2, 2022 · at 31:20
Greg Dowling, CIO at FEG Consulting, predicts the long-term format of institutional due diligence post-COVID.
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“You ask, where is it going? I think it's going to be a little bit of both. I think our meetings will be more meaningful, and that instead of doing a marathon all day meeting on site where we're exhausted and they're exhausted, or flying to Hong Kong and our eyes are rolling back in our head, we're jet lagged, we barely remember the meeting, We can do a lot of that stuff virtually, and then go there and spend time maybe as a group. Maybe you can go to dinner and see how they act socially. So I think it'll be better, and I think we'll be able to do more.”
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