In this episode of The Capital Raiser Show, Richard C. Wilson sits down with Marc Halpern, co-founder of the Deep Due Diligence Investors Club, for a fireside chat on screening private placements at scale, managing risk in alternative investments, team-based due diligence, and what separates disciplined investors from everyone else.
Marc shares lessons from five decades of breakthrough R&D and private investing, including the "jockey, horse, and track" framework, how his club uses AI to screen 400+ deals a year in seconds, and why reading every word of a PPM is still non-negotiable.
The conversation dives into deal screening discipline, portfolio strategy, diversification, stress testing sponsors through market cycles, and how a team of 58 investors from wildly different professional backgrounds covers each other's blind spots better than any single expert could.
Topics covered include:

The "jockey, horse, and track" framework for evaluating any deal
How AI deal screening tools cut through hundreds of opportunities in seconds
Deep due diligence in teams and why diverse professional backgrounds matter
Minimizing risk vs. eliminating it - and why you can only do one
Portfolio strategy before individual investment selection
Diversification vs. de-worsification and finding the right balance
Stress testing sponsors through the Fed rate cycle of 2022-2023
When to walk away quickly and take no for an answer
The biggest misconception private investors have about succeeding in alternatives

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