How machines will transform private capital markets | Ep. 83
Fund Shack Private Equity Podcast · 2026-02-04 · 44 min
Episode notes
Can algorithms already outperform human decision-making in private equity? In this episode of Private Markets Podcast, Fund Shack , Ross Butler speaks with Oliver Gottschalg , Professor at HEC Paris and founder of Gottschalg Analytics, about how machine learning is already reshaping private equity fund selection and secondaries pricing. Drawing on more than 25 years of empirical research and extensive real-world back-testing, Gottschalg explains why algorithmic decision support can improve outcomes using the same opportunity sets LPs invest in today. The discussion explores why private markets may be structurally better suited to machine learning than public markets, where human judgement still matters, and how lower-cost, more scalable private equity products could emerge.
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