An Online World That Includes Fund Raising

The world of capital-raising is not immune to the paradigm shifts of rapid economic change.  Having a corporate job used to mean your job and pension were secure.  Not anymore.  Buying a known fund used to be a safe investment.  Not anymore.  And, in capital-raising, conventional offline strategies used to be sufficient.  No longer.

For investors and managers, online media have opened new markets.  Global capital centers are bound together by a network of online marketplaces.  These markets have embraced social media as new venues for marketing, networking and structuring deals.  The web has also opened new geographies for capital-raising.  Despite traditional views, we are seeing first hand hundreds of funds and investors interacting online, exchanging views and expressing interest on deals.  Most notably, we find a new generation of high-net worth individuals, family offices and small and large investors alike to a large degree in emerging markets, but also in other areas, sharing online.

The realm of capital-raising has changed.  There are many technological tools which help a fund to manage their time and increase efficiencies that were not available even five years ago.  By taking the time to think through a complete capital-raising strategy, offline AND online, a company or fund can significantly influence its future success. 

Are you covering all your markets, including the array of new markets, investment opportunities and investors?  Are marketing strategies and fund raising methods engaging or passive?  Are you utilizing technology to reach all investors across the globe?  By reviewing your current capital raising strategy and ensuring you are doing everything in your power to utilize online resources, you can increase your fund’s potential for success.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about our "network".  As Joe mentioned in his previous interactions, we want to hear from you, because your ideas and experiences are of utmost importance to what we do. 

Sophie Pompea
@oliversofka

Webinar Invitation on Opportunities in Infrastructure Investing with Highstar Capital and Royal Bank of Canada Infrastructure Investment Group

Hello !

A few weeks ago, I introduced myself as the Community Manager for Trusted Insight, and wrote about the importance of Trust in the community we are building here.  

I'm excited to announce an interesting webinar about infrastructure investing on December 9, 2010.  See the end of this blog post for information on signing up for the Free Webinar.

Opportunities in

Infrastructure

This Webinar is Open to LPs through special invitation by Trusted Insight

WEBINAR DETAILS
Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

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Trusted Insight, Inc is hosting an in-depth, 45-minute webinar discussion with two top-level fund managers focused on global infrastructure financing. The webinar will provide valuable insight into the types of investment strategies available to institutional investors interested in these opportunities.

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

HIGHSTAR CAPITAL is an independent, owner-operated infrastructure investment fund manager.  Since they closed their first fund in 2000, they have directly invested $5.5 billion for limited partners and co-investors in 18 fund investments, including eight realizations.  Highstar focuses its investment mandate on infrastructure assets and businesses in the energy, environmental services and transportation sectors,
principally in North America and Europe.

Speaker: James Timmins, Partner
www.highstarcapital.com

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT GROUP (RBC), provides unlisted fund of funds strategies and customized infrastructure investment solutions to institutional clients seeking exposure to a complex new asset class within a cost-effective investment program.  Its exclusive focus is providing
clients with a diversified portfolio of investments in infrastructure funds, co-investments and other opportunistic infrastructure opportunities together
with unmatched client service.  RBC invests in funds globally, seeking diversification by sector, region, investment stage and vintage year.     

Speaker: Whit Porter, Managing Director
            www.rbcgam.com/iig  


TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS WEBINAR, YOU MUST BE A MEMBER OF THE TRUSTED INSIGHT COMMUNITY.

If you are not yet a Member,
please register for FREE here: www.trustedinsightinc.com.

Once you are registered and logged in, you can view more information,
and register for the Webinar, by clicking here: http://www.trustedinsightinc.com/webinars. 

Who Do You Trust?

Hello,

My name is Joe Omansky.  I created a hedge fund rating system about seven years ago called SkyRank.  SkyRank is an unbiased, patented process now rating 12,000 hedge funds worldwide.  It is used by thousands of investors, hedge funds, and service providers.

Over the past two years, I've become increasingly infatuated, intrigued, exhilarated, and excited about social media and its potential positive implications for the world.  I tweet, blog, and make introductions to people I know online, and while most people in the alternative investment space still don't, I predict they will in a big way soon.  We'll be right here to help them when they do.  For me, it's been thrilling, and I've made several real life friends by "following" thought leaders online.

I recently joined Trusted Insight and am helping the company build its new product, community, and culture.  We're not only building your "Trusted Network" in the alternative investments space, but we're also building a place that we as employees can call home.  We want a place to work that we enjoy with positive energy, trust between ourselves as colleagues and between our users also.

Trusted Insight strives to be what it states in its name: an online resource for alternative investments and their investors to provide each other with the "trusted insight" they need around their investing activities.  The house is built, but the paint is still drying.  In other words, any great company needs to understand what its users really want, and Trusted Insight is doing a good job going through those exercises of listening to its users to make slight modifications to deliver to them what they want.  Shortly, Trusted Insight 2.0 will be released and we'll continue improving for our users.  Hopefully, the process of continuously tweaking and improving our product will never change.  Feel free to let us know what you think of the existing site and the new one when it is released, and what you would like to see.  We value your feedback.

I believe in what Trusted Insight is building.  I believe in a trusted online resource for the private alternative investment industry.  And, above all, I believe in trust, honesty and openness in an industry that has lacked those qualities in the past.

Thank you for your time, and I'll see you online.