The Evolution of Private Investing with Griffith Norville of Hamilton Lane + Cobalt LP

Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 6 a.m.

In today\u2019s episode, Ryan Zauk sits down with Griffith Norville, Managing Director at Hamilton Lane.\n\nOver the last decade, the scope of private investments has exploded across products, asset classes, and geographies. LPs, often equipped with just a small investment team, are facing greater difficulty sorting through droves of funds, managers, trends, and data. Hamilton Lane and its cutting-edge product, Cobalt LP, are tackling this problem head-on.\n\nGriff is the Head of Cobalt LP, a software solution that helps LPs with portfolio construction, benchmarking, and investment selection focused on the private markets. Cobalt also offers front-office analytics and back-office managed services solutions, all backed by Hamilton Lane\u2019s first-class historical data and insights. In addition to this role, Griff helps run strategic technology investments for the firm.\n\nThey talk about the state of Private Markets investing and how the explosive growth of private markets has created such a need for Cobalt LP. They close with his role in strategic tech investing, including how he sourced a deal from a fishbowl (don\u2019t you miss in-person conferences?).\n\nHamilton Lane is an alternative investment management firm that provides private markets solutions to investors around the world with over $500B total assets under management and supervision as of September 30, 2020 - Inclusive of $73.1B in assets under management and $474.1B in assets under supervision as of September 30, 2020.\n\nFor more insights and analysis from FinTech leaders, follow us below:\n\nRyan's Twitter: twitter.com/RyanZauk\n\nMedium: medium.com/wharton-fintech\n\nWFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech\n\nLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/wharton-fintech-club/\n\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/whartonfintech/\n\nInstagram: www.instagram.com/whartonfintech/