I spoke with Leyla Kunimoto, the writer behind the Accredited Investor Insights Substack, and I finally got what it takes to “democratize private assets”.

One approach is to incentivize financial advisors to distribute evergreen funds and enroll them in a 'university' established by one of the dominant firms in the market.

Alternatively, you can empower individuals by offering case studies and tools to help them conduct due diligence and select deals to join as Limited Partners (LPs), and it takes a lot of commitment and effort on their side.

We mainly used private real estate examples, but we covered a broad range:

* The information imbalance in private assets

* Who are the retail LPs?

* How they can try to achieve some Alpha

* The critical advice to get started

* How the value of private investing goes beyond returns

* Why AI is the biggest unlock for democratization

* The power of memes!

LINKS

Accredited Investor Insights: https://www.accreditedinsight.com/

Leyla on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lkunimoto/

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introducing the “Private Assets Universities”

01:03 The Birth of Accredited Investor Insights

02:48 What does the Democratization of Alts really mean?

03:58 Who are the retail LP investors?

06:17 Paths to private market access

10:09 Challenges, nuances and opportunities in Private Assets

15:44 Advice for new investors

29:57 The role of AI in investment analysis for private real estate

32:23 The power of Social Media and content

36:20 Final Thoughts