Kim Lisa TaylorSecurities Attorney, Founder, Syndication Attorneys, PLLC · Corporate Securities Attorney, 2x Best-Selling Author, Nationwide Speaker | Private Placement

Why Over-Diversifying Your Fund Can Lead to Failure 🚫

20 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker outlines common pitfalls that cause private fund offerings to fail. The primary issue highlighted is over‑diversification—trying to combine multifamily acquisitions, lending, joint ventures, and other strategies within a single fund, which makes the product unattractive to investors seeking a clear focus. The speaker also notes that some clients disregard the advisor’s recommendations, leading to a need to overhaul offering documents and redefine the fund’s purpose after they are unable to raise capital. The overall message stresses the importance of a focused fund strategy and alignment with advisory guidance to improve fundraising success.

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Can you share some examples of issues that have caused your clients' offerings to fail? I can start. Yeah, people that have done funds have over-diversified the fund, and then it becomes not attractive to their investors. We're gonna buy multifamily, we're gonna lend money, we're gonna joint venture, we're gonna do all these things with your money, you know. So that becomes an issue. And we've had Quite a few clients who did not agree with our suggestions, and we've had to reconfigure their documents, and they've come up with a whole new purpose to redo their fund because they were not able to raise a dollar. People were not interested in a fund that does too many things.