Ian Charles
The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Ian Charles is a textbook Pioneer, consistently operating at the frontier of institutional capital markets before consensus forms.
“To go back to the three kinds of deals that we do liquidity to the limited partners or minority shareholders. There's also liquidity, partial liquidity to the control owners, as that's category one. Category two is acquisition financing, and category three is growth capital or operating capital.”
“I just want to piggyback one thing on Doc's comment. He talked about the increasing sophistication of the controlling owners in this space. But I want to double click on that and provide data around it.”
“And you get your pro rider share. It doesn't matter what city you're in, you've got the same share as everybody else. That's piece number one. The second piece is you have a protected geographic monopoly to operate in one of the thirty best markets in North America. This live entertainment business.”
“Let me explain why, or some of the reasons why that leverage constraint exists. And then I can talk about how we view it as an investor. So Doc talked about why direct investments from institutional investors was prohibited in each of the leagues because historically institutional investors either deemed sports to be no longer strategic o…”
Money Maze Podcast: “Sport Meets Finance! Investing in Liverpool FC, PSG, Boston Red Sox and F1 - With Ian Charles, Co-Founder of Arctos”
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