Comprehensive guide to the private market, covering allocating capital, portfolio construction, product evolution, and more

Written in accessible language, Private Markets: Building Better Portfolios with Private Equity, Private Credit, and Private Real Estate addresses the challenges and opportunities with investing in the private markets, including understanding the merits of the asset classes—private equity, private credit, and private real estate—product evolution, and the structural tradeoffs, and how to incorporate these versatile and valuable tools in client portfolios.

This book leverages Tony Davidow's 40 years of experience working directly with advisors and high-net-worth families/ ultra-high-net-worth families. Davidow is an award-winning author and has also been recognized for building Franklin Templeton's alternative education program (2023 recipient of the “Wealthie”). Topics discussed in this book include:

• How private markets can be used to increase the likelihood of achieving client goals?
• Examining the historical risk and return characteristics of the private markets relative to their public market equivalents.
• Exploring the benefits of private markets including the potential for higher returns, an alternative source of income, diversification, and hedging against the impact of inflation.

Now that private markets are available to a broader group of investors outside of institutions and family offices, Private Markets: Building Better Portfolios with Private Equity, Private Credit, and Private Real Estate is an essential resource for all financial advisors and individual investors who are considering allocating capital to these once elusive investments.

TONY DAVIDOW is a Senior Alternative Investment Strategist for the Franklin Templeton Institute, the research arm of Franklin Templeton. He’s the host of the Alternative Allocations podcast series and he has over 35 years’ experience in the financial services industry. Davidow is the author of Goals-Based Investing: A Visionary Framework for Wealth Management.