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Brian Garfield

Brian Garfield

American novelist and historian

Oct 5, 2026

27:30
Um, but, but is this a good thing for the industry, for transparency? Uh, is it a good thing for the in-- uh, for the, the players in the industry for frequency of use? Just curious on how you think of more frequent valuations.
27:46
Well, let's just, like, take a step back and, and talk about why, why there's more frequent valuations, and then we can kinda dive into answer your question.
27:53
So linking and reporting occurs based off of how frequently the-- like linking is valuation analysis- analyses and the reporting for-- to an LP, uh, is on the basis of when that fund needs to report, right? So we, we for some time now had-- have seen more funds, to your point, evergreen funds, that are requiring more frequent valuation, more frequent reporting, which is leading to more frequent valuation.
28:20
But there still is a whole market of private funds that only report on a, on a quarterly basis, and there's still gonna always-- there's still gonna be the existence, I believe, close-end funds that will only report on a qu- quarterly basis.
28:34
There's certain managers that are gonna be able to, uh, be a part of the evergreen process, and there are certain managers that won't be in that evergreen process.
28:44
And so let's focus in on the ones that, that will be, which is really where the root of your question is.
28:48
So the ones that are, they're essentially a, a, um-- they're, they're getting capital from a new investor base.

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50:45
[chuckles] What, what are your insights telling you?

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