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Alan Gold

Australian novelist and columnist

Jun 15, 2026

2:58
Tell us a bit about the way you invest.
3:01
Yeah, absolutely.
3:02
So when PPET was launched in 2001, it was a pure fund to fund.
3:07
So all it would do would be primary investments, as we call them, into funds or primary commitments even.
3:15
So that's basically committing to a private equity fund on day one when the fund has no assets in the ground, what's not made any investments into portfolio companies.
3:27
So you're really making a judgment call on the manager itself, that they're differentiated, that they're best in class.
3:37
Primary investments or primary funds, as they're known, bring a lot of advantages insofar as they They provide consistent exposure by vintage years.

10 MINS LATER

13:38
And what's the rationale behind that segment of the market? Yeah.

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