{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private Markets","title":"MSCI's Luke Flemmer - \"bringing clarity to investment decisions\"","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2869,"description":"Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.\nToday’s episode dives into how data and market structure are shaping private markets.\nWe sat down in MSCI’s New York office with Luke Flemmer, the Head of Private Assets at MSCI to discuss how standardization and normalization of data can help bring efficiency, transparency, and liquidity to private markets.\nLuke brings a unique perspective to private markets. He was previously Managing Director, Head of Digital Strategy for Alternative Investments at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and was Co-Founder and CEO of Lab49, a global solutions provider of investment and risk technology to asset managers and investment banks.\nWhen the ION Group acquired Lab49, Luke became Co-Head of ION’s Capital Markets Division, delivering software and solutions to the group’s global financial services customer base.\nEarlier in his career, Luke worked in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. He is a CFA charterholder.\nLuke and I had a fascinating conversation about private markets market structure and how MSCI is playing a role in driving standardization, normalization, and transparency of data in private markets. We covered:\nParallels to market structure evolutions in equities, fixed income, FX, and derivatives.\nTradeoffs of transparency for private markets participants.\nWhat it will take to build transparency and price formation in private markets.\nWhere investors will still be able to find durable alpha.\nWhat standardization and normalization of data means for secondary markets.\nAnalogies between Greek mythology and private markets.\nHow secondaries has gone from a trade to a portfolio management tool.\nHow index creation will impact private markets.\nThanks Luke for sharing your wisdom, expertise, and passion at the intersection of private markets and market structure.\nShow Notes\n00:00 “Data Wants to be Free”\n00:28 Welcome to the Alt Goes Mainstream Podcast\n01:02 Sponsor Spotlight: Ultimus Fund Solutions\n01:57 Private...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AFAZ1vkAT92lFJtqt-r0HeFQ55KTdcbJHmgKXaMlAtY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE5MDA4LzE2MTQ1/Mzk1MDUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}