Retail Investors in Private Assets (RIPA) Working Group

Private Equity · Private Credit · Household Access

Online Seminar

An online seminar series on household access to private assets, featuring outside speakers presenting work in the area. The seminar is open to a wider audience than the closed working group that preceded it.

The seminar is organized by Mike Ewens, Xuelin Li, and Simon Oh.

Click here to register for the seminar. Our next seminar is on Monday, October 26, when Tomasz Piskorski presents “Wealth Transfers and Runs on Unsophisticated Investors in Semi-Liquid Private Credit,” joint work with Gregor Matvos, Amit Seru, and Chun Zhao.

Poster for Session 2: Tomasz Piskorski, Wealth Transfers and Runs on Unsophisticated Investors in Semi-Liquid Private Credit, Monday 26 October 2026

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Preliminary Schedule

Meetings Mondays
12:30–1:30pm ET
Format Online
Outside speakers
Each session 5 min moderator intro
40 min presentation (no interruptions)
15 min Q&A
Session 1: September 28 · Luboš Pástor
Luboš Pástor (University of Chicago), Robert F. Stambaugh (Wharton), Lucian A. Taylor (Wharton)
Session 2: October 26 · Tomasz Piskorski
“Wealth Transfers and Runs on Unsophisticated Investors in Semi-Liquid Private Credit”
Gregor Matvos (Northwestern Kellogg), Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia), Amit Seru (Stanford GSB), Chun Zhao (Stanford GSB)
Session 3: November 9 · Chuck Fang
Chuck Fang (Drexel University), Itay Goldstein (Wharton), Yao Zeng (Wharton)
Session 4: November 23 · Brian K. Baik
“How Informative Are Private Equity Fund Valuations?”
Brian K. Baik (HBS), Sebastian Hillenbrand (HBS)