Alex Abell - Lower Middle Market Buyout Investing at RCP (EP.383)

Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

Ted Seides – Allocator and Asset Management Expert

Investing, Capitalallocation, Business

4.8 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Alex Abell is a Managing Partner at RCP Advisors, which at $14 billion of committed capital, is one of the largest firms focused exclusively on lower-middle market buyouts. Alex has spent twenty-three years in the business, starting on the LP side, building Atlas Diligence – a research and advisory platform focused on advanced analytics, and then merging Atlas with RCP a decade ago. Today, he helps manage RCP’s research efforts, its customized solutions, and advisory services.

Our conversation covers Alex’s path and lessons learned investing in lower middle market buyout funds across assessing managers with data, benchmarking, blending quantitative and qualitative factors, and applying insights to primary and secondary investing.

Alex and I just scratch the surface on what’s possible with analytics in the private markets. If you’d like to learn more, reach out to Alex directly at [email protected]

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Ted Sides, and this is Capital Allocators.
0:10.1	This show is an open exploration of the people and process behind capital allocation.
0:16.1	Through conversations with leaders in the money game, we learn how these holders of the keys to the
0:21.7	kingdom allocate their time and their capital. You can join our mailing list and access premium
0:27.8	content at capital allocators.com. All opinions expressed by TED and podcast guests are
0:35.0	solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of capital
0:37.7	allocators or their firms. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon
0:42.5	as a basis for investment decisions. Clients of capital allocators or podcast guests may maintain
0:47.5	positions and securities discussed on this podcast. My guest on today's sponsored insight is Alex A. Bell, a managing partner at RCP Advisors, which at $14 billion of committed capital, is one of the largest firms focused exclusively on lower middle market buyouts.
1:06.4	Alex has spent 23 years in the business, starting on the LP side, building Atlas diligence,
1:12.9	a research and advisory platform focused on advanced analytics, and then merging Atlas with
1:18.6	RCP a decade ago. Today, he helps manage RCP's research efforts, its customized solutions,
1:26.0	and advisory services. Our conversation covers Alex's path
1:29.9	and lessons learned investing in lower middle market buyout funds across assessing managers
1:35.3	with data, benchmarking, blending quantitative and qualitative factors, and applying
1:41.1	insights to primary and secondary investing.
1:49.4	Alex and I just scratched the surface on what's possible with analytics in the private markets.
1:56.0	If you'd like to learn more, reach out to Alex directly at Alex at RCPAdvisors.com.
2:01.8	Before we get going, capital allocators has entered the world of AI.
2:07.4	We've trained a large language model on all our transcripts to help you learn anything you want from seven years of conversations. We've affectionately called this model,
2:13.2	chat, GP, TED. It's safe to say Hank Morgan and I have no idea how to build an LLM, train data, and get the outputs that Chat GPTed delivers.
2:24.3	So a special thanks goes to our friends on the data science team at Adelaia Capital,
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