Christian Munafo on the Mid-2025 Economy
Christian Munafo, Chief Investment Officer, Liberty Street Advisors, Inc., and Portfolio Manager of The Private Shares Fund, explores the current investment landscape for closed-end funds: capital raising, M&As, IPOs, tariffs and more. “I think the tariff dynamics in April put a bit of a shock to the system and slowed things down temporarily, but ...
Griffin’s Forman: Interval fund structure has benefits in turbulent markets
Zach Forman, head of fund relations at Griffin Capital Securities -- which runs the Griffin Institutional Access Real Estate Fund -- says that the illiquidity of interval funds can be a real benefit to investors during turbulent times, not only by providing access to private markets...
Bancroft’s Spatacco: Closed-end funds are now attractive right out of the box
Michael Spatacco, director at Bancroft Capital, says that closed-end funds were an overlooked investment type for years, largely because the structure used for selling new issues put investors at a disadvantage. With that negative now mostly gone, however...
