Charles Anselm is the CEO and co-founder of Osyte, an institutional liquidity and portfolio management software company.
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Anselm: Osyte could not have been built in Europe, India, or China
“If I were sitting in, say, in, in, in Europe, somewhere in France or in India or China, I don't think I'll be able to do this at all, right? So regardless of how entrepreneurial I am.”
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Anselm: Managing capital calls across hundreds of family offices is a nightmare
“That's a very significant liquidity management problem. It's hard enough to do it across one portfolio, but if you're a multifamily office or an outsource CIO working with hundreds of family offices, that becomes a huge nightmare, liquidity management. So that…”
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Anselm: Over-diversifying across GPs creates passive index returns with active fees
“As you make more and more investments, your portfolio starts looking like a general index fund, right? Again, it kind of goes back to, you know, you need to know exactly what those Holding companies are in a private market, you know, in particular, also in the…”
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Anselm: Existing reporting platforms force LPs into manual Excel modeling
“There are a lot of reporting platforms out there that actually do this very similar data aggregation, but they are very focused on purely like saying, okay, yeah, here's what your position is today. Okay, now go and do whatever you want, you know. Then what do…”
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Anselm: Harvard and Yale face liquidity challenges, offloading private investments
“There's a lot of, in the news, right, you know and almost like Harvard and Yale having these significant liquidity challenges, you know, because of, Whatever political environment that we may be in, and so, which means that they are trying to offload a lot of …”
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Anselm: Typical Silicon Valley MVPs do not sell in asset management tech
“The typical MVP of the Silicon Valley startup, right? Doesn't sell in our industry.”