Advanced guidance for institutional investors, academics, and researchers on how to manage a portfolio of private capital funds. The Art of Commitment Pacing: Engineering Allocations to Private Capital provides a much-needed analysis of the issues that face investors as they incorporate closed ended-funds targeting illiquid private assets (such as private equity, private debt, infrastructure, real estate) into their portfolios. These private capital funds, once considered -alternative- and viewed as experimental, are becoming an increasingly standard component of institutional asset allocations. However, many investors still follow management approaches that remain anchored in the portfolio theory for liquid assets but that often lead to disappointing results when applied to portfolios of private capital funds where practically investorsremain committed over nearly a decade. When planning for such commitments, investment managers and researchers are faced with practical questions such
