Private Markets Solutions Provider

Welcome to the First Republic Resource Center featuring education and insights on all things private markets.

Private Markets Education

A Guide to Private Markets

Meeting long-term return objectives is a tall order for any investor. Further confounding the problem for individual investors? A short list of opportunities.

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Introduction to Private Equity

Understand how private equity works, the differentiated strategies employed, the considerations when investing and the advantages to partnering with Hamilton Lane.

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Broader Horizons: The Case for Private Markets Investing

A dynamic and innovative global economy still offers investors plenty of long-term growth opportunities. The caveat: You may want to look beyond public markets.

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Benchmarking in the Private Markets: The Four Minute Mile

Easily the highest hurdle to creating a consensus, high quality private markets benchmark is the scarcity of private markets fund performance data.

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Beyond 60/40: Allocating to Private Markets

For decades, individual investment portfolios have been governed by a single ratio: 60/40. Conventional wisdom was a portfolio of 60% stocks and 40% bonds.

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NAV, Secondaries, J-Curves, Oh My! A quick-reference guide to common terms in the private markets asset class.

We've endeavored to explain some of the more common private market terms.

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Strategy Education

What are Secondaries and how do they work?

Secondaries involve a transfer of a private equity interest from one investor to another. Secondary buyers will purchase an investor’s commitment to a private equity fund and become a replacement investor (limited partner, or LP). In this primer explore the mechanics of a secondary transaction, types of secondary transactions, portfolio benefits, investor cash flow experience, and the advantage of the Hamilton Lane platform.

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Hamilton Lane Insights

What Are LPs Talking About?

We explore a few of the big topics that LPs can’t stop talking about, woven together with and supported by a few pieces of our proprietary data.

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Inflation: We’ve Seen This Movie Before…Or Have We?

Lurking in the back of most investors’ minds remains a question of how best to prepare for the likelihood of rising interest rates.

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GP-Led Transactions: What LPs Need to Know

Limited partners investing into the space now need to evaluate the secondary market’s evolution and what it means with regard to portfolio allocation and manager selection.

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