The Allocator Playbook: 30 Private Conversations With Capital in Motion
A Reminder - Last day to reserve your copy
Thank you for the incredible response.
Over 200 of you have already reserved your copy of The Allocator Playbook, and it’s clear we may need larger venues for the London and New York dinners we’re planning. I’m grateful — and excited. We may add a third location either in Hong Kong or Singapore due to the extensive demand emanating from these regions.
For those who haven’t reserved their copy yet, here’s your reminder.
The Allocator Playbook: 30 Private Conversations With Capital in Motion
Release Date: June 5, 2025
By: Karim Al-Mansour
Over the past six months, I’ve had private, unscripted conversations with some of the world’s most influential allocators — the people actively moving capital now, not just talking about it.
These conversations are not polished panels or LP day snippets. They’re raw, direct insights from:
CIOs of sovereign wealth funds overseeing $500B+
Public pension executives entering private credit and alts
Endowment heads backing frontier venture and specialist funds
Bank CIOs redesigning exposure models
Strategic desks allocating around geopolitical asymmetry
What’s Inside
Thirty allocator interviews across:
Private Equity: growth, secondaries, continuation vehicles
Venture Capital: frontier tech, firm-building, emerging geographies
Hedge Funds: global macro, thematic long/short, vol arb
Private Credit: NAV lending, structured special sits, opportunistic
Real Assets: energy transition, infrastructure, digital storage
Public Markets: EM equity, thematic, volatility-sensitive
Each allocator shares:
What they are allocating to — and why
What immediately disqualifies a manager
How they navigate internal politics and consultant constraints
How they assess liquidity, GP alignment, and redemption terms
The best pitch they’ve heard in the last 12 months
Who It’s For
Fund managers seeking clarity in a noisy fundraising environment
IR/capital formation teams refining strategy
Placement agents rethinking allocator segmentation
Investors wanting to understand institutional psychology beyond boilerplate
Pre-ordering also grants access to private dinners with select allocators in London and New York (invite-only).
Format: PDF
Edition: Limited — available to pre-order list only before public release
Release Date: June 5, 2025
Reserve your copy now.