Private Market Transformation
Since 08/21/24 which is when “Asset Managers Must Invest in Private Markets Now, Bain Says” was published, SaveChangeWorld.com has been monitoring the news flow for the evolving private markets. To put Bain’s projections into perspective, the aggregate value of S&P 500 at 12/31/2025 was $58.4 Trillion. See also “Why Pubcos @ Market Caps <$10 Billion Extinct by 2030?”
Secondary Market for Private (non-public) Companies Rapidly Evolving
To include Adolescent Unicorns @ < $1.0 billion valuation
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News & Reports
Secondary Market in Venture Capital: A Significant Opportunity Going Forward
After a decade in which Venture Capital has established itself as an investment asset by volume of assets managed, returns achieved and legendary companies financed, Venture Capital faces its next phase towards maturity, namely the development of a secondary market...
Apollo Offers Private Investors Fee Bonus to Lock Up Capital
Apollo Global Management Inc. is trying to woo wealthy investors to one of its newest private market funds and keep them there with a rare offer — a bonus if they stick around for three years. At first glance, the S3 Private Markets fund rolled out by Apollo last year...
Larry Fink Touts Importance of Private Assets in Annual Letter
One way to fix the “retirement gap” is to increase access to alternative investments in 401(k) plans, according to BlackRock's Fink, writing in his annual letter. Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of $11.5 trillion asset manager BlackRock Inc., wants to expand investor...
Larry Fink Vows to Unlock Private Investments for the Masses
BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink pledged to open up private markets to millions of everyday investors, not just the wealthy few, contending individuals should share more of the gains from economic growth. “Today, many countries have twin, inverted...
Australia’s $1 Trillion Market Draws UK Fund Manager Coller
Coller Capital Ltd., a UK fund manager specializing in private market secondaries, is expanding in Australia with the launch of several funds targeting wealthy locals. The firm, which manages $38 billion, has launched two secondary feeder funds — Coller Private...
State Street Tries to Tap Long-Lost Mojo With Private Credit ETF
The first-ever ETF to bring private assets to the masses was meant to be a milestone this year in Yie-Hsin Hung’s push to shake off State Street Corp.’s reputation for being cautious and boring. Hung has been tasked with reviving the appetite for innovation at State...
Permira Sees Private Capital Opportunities in Volatile Markets
Permira Holdings Ltd. is seeing opportunities for private capital at a time of higher market volatility. “When the markets are really weak, that is when the opportunities emerge for private equity,” Executive Chairman Kurt Björklund said in a Bloomberg Television...
Dynasty Wealth on forefront of public to private market transformation
Dynasty Wealth (DW), owner and operator of SaveChangeWorld.com (SCW), is on the forefront of the growth investments transformation from the public to the private capital markets. See “2025, Year for Transformation to Private from Public Market Began”, February 18,...
Why Private Equity Is Eyeing Your Nest Egg
Alternative investment shops want to tap the trillions of dollars in retirement accounts. Private equity has long been an exclusive club, a world of opaque funds and high fees where only the wealthiest and most sophisticated investors can gain a foothold. Its allure...
Social Investing Increasing Liquidity for Private Co. Shares
Social investing, an extension of Social Media (SM), is driving the growth component for a portfolio into the private from the public market. Research of the 2012 JOBS Act and the SEC’s Regulations pertaining to the act’s crowdfunding application led to the discovery...
Wall Street Is Selling ETFs That Mimic the Private Equity Boom
Raft of funds offering PE-like exposure launch recently ETFs arrive amid push for first full-blown private-asset funds Wall Street is still awaiting regulatory approval for the first full-blown private-asset ETFs, but for now opportunistic issuers are continuing to...
Fund Giant BlackRock Is Out to Unite Public and Private Markets
Larry Fink built the world’s biggest asset manager by making access to stocks and bonds easy. Can the same be done with more opaque assets? Asset management has two great kingdoms. The purveyors of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds dominate the first and...
Private Credit Is the Hot New Thing on Wall Street. But What Is It?
It sounds mysterious, but it’s really just a loan—often a risky one—made by an investment fund instead of through a bank. Hedge funds? Quant trading? Old news. These days, everyone within shouting distance of Wall Street is talking about private credit—even if some of...
“2025”, Year for Transformation to Private from Public Market Began
2025 will be recorded in the history books as being the year for which the transformation from public to private growth investing began. By the end of 2025 shareholders of select private startup and early-stage companies valued for less than $1.0 billion will begin...
BlackRock’s Larry Fink Handed Pay Perks for Role in Growing Private Markets
BlackRock Inc. awarded Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink additional pay perks known as carried interest tied to the asset manager’s major expansion in private markets, saying the co-founder has a key role in the firm’s long-term plans. Fink will receive a percentage...
Evolution to Private - Videos
2009
Facebook Paves Way for Private Shares Secondary Market
Facebook Seeded Secondary Market for Private Shares
2010
Dodd Frank Act Evaporates Liquidity for Publicly Traded:
- Nano-caps
- Micro-caps
- Small-caps
Liquidity for Publicly Traded Micro-caps
Evaporated After New 2010 Regulation
2012
JOBS ACT, Social Investing Communities (SIC) Lay Foundation for
Private Markets to be Larger than Public Markets
JOBS ACT, “SOCIAL INVESTING” to Enable
PRIVATE to Dwarf PUBLIC Capital Markets
2024
Bain Estimating $65 Trillion of Private assets
in Wealth Manager Portfolios by 2032
2025
Excessively Valued Tech Stocks Create
URGENT NEED for Private Markets
Overvalued Tech Stocks Driving Demand for Private Tech Shares
2025
World’s Largest Alternative Investment Firms
Embrace Private Markets
- Blackstone
- Blackrock
- KKR
- Apollo
January 2025, Water Shed Month for Coming PVT MKT UBIQUITY

