Chase: Most fund of funds maintain direct investment strategies alongside fund investments
Kelsey Chase · Kelsey Chase – Analyzing Venture Transactions at Aumni (Capital Allocators, EP.241) · Mar 17, 2022 · at 16:23
Kelsey Chase, co-founder of Aumni (Omni), explains how institutional investors structure their portfolios across direct deals and fund commitments.
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“If you take a fund to fund, for example, most fund to funds do have some sort of direct investment strategy alongside their fund strategy.”
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