Dry Powder: The Private Equity Podcast
Full Speed Ahead with Hamilton Lane’s Erik Hirsch
In the second of our two-part series, we learn how Hamilton Lane is building an analytics engine that can serve both institutional and individual investors.
Previously on Dry Powder, I asked Erik Hirsch, the co-CEO of Hamilton Lane, to take us to the cutting edge of private market infrastructure. Today on the show, we take a closer look at what it will take to get ahead of these trends.
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I ask Erik how Hamilton Lane is harnessing one of the world’s largest private market databases and building an analytics engine that works for institutional and individual investors.
“If you and I are right that the public equity world and the private markets will start looking more and more similar,” Erik says, “then I expect that the tools will look very similar, the access to data will look very similar—that will be part of that whole experience.”
We also explore how the influx of capital from high-net-worth individuals could rattle the industry’s fee structures.
The Private Equity Podcast
In our podcast series, Bain's Hugh MacArthur interviews leading experts on the trends and opportunities that will redefine the private equity industry.
First published in aprile 2025