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A very interesting interview with our CEO, Alan Merriman in today's The Irish Times discussing the importance of investing in private market opportunities and the role it plays in diversification. Alan emphasises that private markets enable clients to "diversify and expand their wealth," in contrast to index tracking funds that can introduce concentration risk. "If you’re allocating just to stocks and bonds, you’re relying on luck. You think you’re diversified, but you’re actually not. To de-risk, you need to have a very considered approach to investing,” Alan says, suggesting that a “healthy focus” on alternatives, along with stocks and bonds, is a better approach. “It’s a ‘need to have’, rather than a ‘nice to have’,” adding that another issue is that “the right opportunities aren’t publicly traded”. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/em96-tBu #Elkstone #AlternativesInvestmentSpecialists #WeathExpansion #Diversification

In the latest article from our "Thoughts From The Road series", Karl Rogers, Chief Investment Officer with Elkstone, sheds light on venture as an asset class. "Diversification within venture is your best friend—from both a risk reduction and increased return expectation. While funds have the largest dispersion of returns within PE markets, the power law enables a similar risk from venture as PE buyout when you put a portfolio of venture funds together, either directing yourself or investing into a fund of venture funds; this is a good way to get exposure to the asset class from a risk-return perspective." Read the full article here. #Elkstone #VentureCapital #Investments #AlternativeInvestmentsSpecialist

At Elkstone, we are proud to be a signatory to Ireland's Women in Finance Charter.   The launch the second Annual Report of the Charter by Minister for Financial Services Neale Richmond TD is an important milestone and highlights the significant progress that has been made since it was established. We in Elkstone believe in gender diversity at all levels of our business. We are proud to be one of 91 signatories to Ireland’s Women in Finance Charter, demonstrating our commitment to increase women’s participation in our company. #IrelandWIF #Elkstone #DEI

Our Head of Venture Niall McEvoy spoke to Vish Gain of Silicon Republic on what do venture capital investors look for in founders? Investors want to be able to see anywhere between 12 to 24 months into the future of the start-up from an execution perspective. More importantly, they want to be convinced the founder or founding team has the breadth of execution, experience and skills to see through the plan. Some of the key insights from Niall for the founder community includes: 💡 Be on top of their subject matter and numbers.  👨💼 Be able to convince investors that they are the right people to execute the business idea proposed. ✔️ Know who at least the first three or four hires for your company will be #Elkstone #Venture #Investment #VentureCapital #AlternativesSpecialists

Elkstone are delighted to announce our partnership with Olympic Irish Sailor Finn Lynch. As alternatives investment specialists, we are passionate about enabling deserving investments that create a positive impact for Ireland. Finn's focus, drive and determination is an inspiration and a testament to the athlete he is. His long-term investment and commitment to the sport he loves is delivering real results, not just for him but for his country, and we at Elkstone are incredibly proud to be part of his journey! #Elkstone #Investinyourfuture #pathtoparis #alternativesspecalists Read more about our partnership here: https://lnkd.in/eugTidXY

The opportunity for student accommodation investment in Ireland is strong and growing. The student population in Ireland is growing at a rate that outpaces the development of student housing. Elkstone pioneered the development of “Purpose-Built Student Accommodation” in Ireland (known as “PBSAs”), and has a decade of experience planning, developing, and selling PBSA assets. Contact us today to invest in our PBSA investment opportunities. #Elkstone #AlternativesSpecialist #PBSAInvestments #StudentAccommodation #Investing

Elkstone provides unique access to global and local investment opportunities, offering you a gateway to diversified wealth expansion. Supported by the Irish Strategic Investment Fund and Enterprise Ireland, Elkstone has established itself as the Irish venture ecosystem champion and is recognised as the leading early-stage venture investor in Ireland. Contact our team today for more information on our venture investment opportunities: https://lnkd.in/exC-tu3H #Elkstone #Venture #Investment #VentureCapital #AlternativesSpecialists

Our Head of Venture Niall McEvoy spoke to Vish Gain of Silicon Republic about the Irish venture ecosystem and the need to incentivise entrepreneurship to foster innovation and better support our early stage founders. “Right now, there’s an overreliance on entrepreneurial reliefs on the exit side – even though very few start-ups actually get to the exit stage. Success builds generational success – and this is why it’s so important that we’re backing the best indigenous Irish founders to scale their businesses here locally through domestic and international VC funding. Given the absolute high-risk profile of early-stage entrepreneurship, and the risk taken by these people – these are the future economic builders of the country – I think we need to find a better way to incentivise them to take that risk" Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eZiAZYTV #Elkstone #AlternativesSpecialists #VentureCapital

We are excited to announce our next Founder Drinks event, hosted in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), VeUP, and Quadri Ventures on June 26th. If you're looking to connect with other ambitious founders and innovators, as well as our team of investors, this is the perfect opportunity. Grow your network, learn from others, and share your experiences! Register your interest here - Niall McEvoy Susan Dwyer Caolfhionn McCarthy Barry Brennan 💡Carl Murray Martin Cass Jeremy Debono Keelan Paliani Dara O'Shea Paul Kelly Ed O'Riordan Rob Lynch

'Long-term capital shouldn’t mind a lockup when a lockup is required.' But our polling shows European fund selectors are not any more comfortable with the illiquidity of private assets and alts. Successive surveys of some of Europe’s most influential fund buyers at our Montreux and Berlin events show a consistent majority of firms have been growing their use of alts over the last few years. Many said they’d like to access alts but liquidity was a problem. More still said they would accept lower return for greater liquidity. We spoke to some specialist selectors to peel beneath the surface. Many thanks to: Karl Rogers, chief investment officer of Elkstone (quoted above); Gregor Rossen Rosen, senior portfolio manager alternatives at Aegon Asset Management; Trine Sellæg Aulie, head of fund selection DNB WM Investment Office. And lending a voice from asset management: Loes Wingens, head of wholesale international sales at asset manager Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management. We asked 80 top European fund selectors: 📈 What percentage of your overall assets are in private assets? 🌳 Is private markets and alternatives a growing area for your firm? ⚖ Are you increasing your exposure to alts at the expense of... 👐 How is your access to private assets and alternatives? 😝 If greater liquidity meant a lower return, would these assets still be interesting? 🚀 When will you be operationally ready to implement Eltifs? Read exclusively on Citywire Selector 👇 https://lnkd.in/efiFmf58 #privateassets #alternativeinvestments #fundselection #citywireselector #liquidity