Jeff Joseph

About the Author

Jeff Joseph

Jeff Joseph has been been a managing partner of Prescient Capital Partners since co-founding the firm in 1999 making direct angel and venture capital investments in early and mezzanine-stage healthcare, lifesciences, internet, technology, entertainment/media, retail and hospitality companies. They have participated in a number of highly visible and profitable liquidity events. Additionally, they provide strategic consulting services to help entrepreneurs and CEOs of start-up, emerging and established companies to access the resources that they require to grow their businesses.

A former Investment Advisor, Joseph has always been a proponent of non-traditional and forward-thinking investment opportunities, asset classes and alternative strategies such as venture capital, private equity, real estate, hedged and  managed futures trading strategies and other vehicles that seek asymmetric investment outcomes.

Up until 2007, he was the managing director of Alternative Strategies for Rydex Investments, and was responsible for investment product origination, development and investment management of the firm’s proprietary institutional alternative trading strategies. The alternative investment products that his team developed included the mutual fund industry’s first multi-strategy absolute return fund and the first managed futures fund offering daily liquidity. Their new product slate attracted billions in new assets. Prior to Rydex, Jeff held managing director positions at Hedgeworld Capital Markets in Rye, NY and Hedge Fund Research in Chicago, IL.

Jeff maintains a blog (www.venturepopulist.com) for family offices, angel investors, investment advisors and entrepreneurs that addresses a variety of topics relating to private venture investment and finance. He has been a monthly contributing columnist to Investment Advisor since 2002.

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  Challenges and Opportunities in the JOBS Act

  By Jeff Joseph  |  July 24, 2012

  Provisions within the JOBS Act present advisors with a number of new challenges and opportunities for high-net-worth clients, as the legislation increases access to several alternative private investment structures.

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  Learning the Hard Way

  By Jeff Joseph  |  May 22, 2012

  The venture capital fund industry is reeling from a report issued by the Kauffman Foundation last month.

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  The Due Diligence Checklist

  By Jeff Joseph  |  April 24, 2012

  If you are a wealth manager who evaluates and invests in private ventures on behalf of your clients, you can bet that startup entrepreneurs and issuers will find a way to your door.

• Five Questions to End Unsolicited Deals

  By Jeff Joseph  |  March 26, 2012

  Recently, I met with the principal of a multifamily office who for the past couple of years had begun making direct private venture investments in early-stage companies on behalf of his clients.

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  Congress Gets It Right

  By Jeff Joseph  |  February 1, 2012

  Private investment in private enterprise continues to be the primary creator of wealth in this country.

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  Why Age Matters in Entrepreneurship

  By Jeff Joseph  |  December 28, 2011

  I am an investor in and director of an ambitious new retail venture.

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  Not All Angels Are From Heaven

  By Jeff Joseph  |  November 1, 2011

  An article by Financial Times journalist Jonathan Moules recently caught my attention.

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  Managing Wealth in a Post-9/11 World

  By Jeff Joseph  |  October 1, 2011

  I cannot imagine how difficult it must be to be a financial advisor still clinging to the old axioms of wealth management in our post-9/11 world.

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  Revisiting Reg D

  By Jeff Joseph  |  July 28, 2011

  Our regular readers do a great job of ensuring I never am at a loss for timely column ideas.

• Extreme Networking: Adding High-Net-Worth Clients

  By Jeff Joseph  |  July 1, 2011

  Proposed: a more effective networking and practice-building approach for advisors who wish to expand their network of HNW and UHNW investors.