[REPLAY] Dan Rasmussen Private Equity Risk and Public Equity Opportunity at Verdad Advisers (First Meeting, EP.15)

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 10 a.m.

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Dan Rasmussen is the Founder and portfolio manager at Verdad Advisers, which he launched in 2014 to replicate the historical success of private equity in the public markets.\\xa0 He\\u2019s an outspoken critic of the market\\u2019s enthusiasm for private equity, resulting from research he conducted in the business while working at Bain Capital.

Our conversation covers Dan\\u2019s early education in the Socratic method, research into why private equity works, current risk in the private equity and private credit markets, and the launch of Verdad to find private equity-like outcomes in the public markets.\\xa0 We then turn to Verdad, including key lessons upon shifting to public equity investing, stock screens, portfolio construction, position sizing and the competitive advantage of capacity constraints.\\xa0 Lastly, we touch on Verdad\\u2019s written research and preparing a portfolio for a recession.

If you like Dan\\u2019s thought process, you can sign up to receive his team\\u2019s weekly research at verdadcap.com/strategy.

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