Gridline raises $18.5M Series A to help make private markets feel as simple as trading stocks for financial advisors.   Read more →
CLOSE

The Gridline blog

Explore the latest private market insights and company updates.

How Southeast Asian and African Startups Escaped the Downturn

The Fed’s 180-degree turn on monetary policy this year – from quantitative easing to rate hikes – put investors on […]
Read More

The Unique Opportunity for Buy-and-Build

For many middle market firms, there is a significant opportunity in running a buy-and-build strategy, in which you purchase a […]
Read More

The Benefits of Alternatives in an IRA

The goal of retirement investing is to preserve and grow your wealth to maintain your lifestyle in retirement. Since public […]
Read More

Why Smaller Funds Are Increasingly Attractive as Dry Powder Soars

Dry powder, a term originally referring to stashes of reserved gunpowder, has been adopted by private equity to describe money […]
Read More

Comparing Liquid and Illiquid Alts

Fidelity Investments recently announced the launch of two new liquid alt funds, Fidelity Advisor Macro Opportunities Fund ($FAQFX) and Fidelity […]
Read More

Buyout Performance Relative to Public Market Indices

Since the first index funds in the 1970s, investing in a diversified basket of stocks has been lauded as the […]
Read More

The Rise of Non-Dilutive Funding

An unfortunate set of dominos began to fall in early 2020. Lockdowns, and ensuing unemployment, compelled central banks to flood […]
Read More

For Private Markets, a Downturn is an M&A Opportunity

Both the dot-com bust of 2000 and the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-2009 were watershed events. In each case, a […]
Read More

The Risk of Stagflation and How Alternatives Can Help

Investors are all too familiar with the risk of inflation eating away at the purchasing power of their portfolios. But […]
Read More

Why Recessions Keep Companies in the Private Markets

There are almost 30% fewer publicly listed companies today than at the start of the millennium due to rising private-equity […]
Read More

The Often Overlooked Strengths of Smaller Funds

The war in Ukraine, China’s unending zero-Covid policy, and the global practice of unprecedented quantitative easing led to consistently high […]
Read More

Millennials Are Getting Rich. Here’s How They’re Investing.

Millennial wealth has doubled since the outbreak of the pandemic, and they’re using that money to invest in their future. […]
Read More

The Disappearing Small-Cap Stock: New Potential in Private Markets

Inflation roared to a new four-decade high in June 2022, exceeding estimates with 9.1% year-over-year growth. The stock market is […]
Read More

Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS): What You Need to Know

Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) provides tax benefits for qualified small business stock (QSBS). This tax break […]
Read More

The “Four P’s” of Due Diligence

In the private equity and venture capital industries, due diligence is essential to uncovering the highest quality managers and reducing […]
Read More
1 5 6 7 8 9 10
linkedin facebook pinterest youtube rss twitter instagram facebook-blank rss-blank linkedin-blank pinterest youtube twitter instagram