The new investment management firm Evolution Private Investment Collective (EPIC) says it is looking to bring financial advisors, their clients and other new participants to the growing $7.3 trillion private investment market through a new solution.
"Advisors and their clients are our primary focus today," according to Alec Garza, managing principal and co-founder of the Denver company.
The company is addressing the "multiple challenges of individual investors," he told ThinkAdvisor, adding: "As we continue to build out this infrastructure, our goal is to open up this asset class to a much larger universe of investors."
Focus of Strategy
The EPIC investment strategy focuses on private fund managers and opportunities typically found in the lower middle market that the company says are best positioned to provide more appealing returns to advisors and investors than are available in public markets.
EPIC's strategy offers lower than usual minimums for investors, while also reducing concentration risk via diversification across 20 to 30 different managers within the portfolios, the company says.
"Our goal for 2021 is to build awareness about the investment opportunity in private markets and to educate financial advisors with whom we are similarly aligned on how they can introduce these asset classes into their client portfolios through our holistic solutions," Garza explained.
