Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

The Future of Private Investments

19 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Charles Hudson discusses the ongoing and accelerating inflow of capital into private investments and predicts continued strong interest from broader financial services firms to access private assets. He suggests many large financial firms will prefer acquiring specialist private-asset managers—especially in private credit and venture secondaries—rather than building those capabilities internally.

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Know, for anybody who follows Samir Kaji's writing at Allocate, just the amount of money coming into privates is. I don't think it's going to stop anytime soon. Which I think means that private asset managers, whether you're a private credit fund, we saw some activity there last year, a venture fund of funds or secondary buyer. There's going to be way more interest from the broader financial services industry of getting access to privates. And I suspect many of those firms like Goldman, we'll conclude there's some specialty areas like private credit and venture secondaries, where it is much better to buy somebody than it is to try to spin up a practice from scratch.