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Practices and Patterns of Informal Investors

Towards a National Consultative Panel of Investors

The vision of, and need for, a national consultative panel of private equity investors was articulated at the end of each of the roundtable discussions. Responses were generally positive with almost two-thirds (64 percent) of participants expressing a willingness to take part in a panel as described in the Appendix. The primary qualification they articulated was that the panel be taken seriously.

"I don't think anyone minds investing their time, I think every one is interested but you don't want to feel that you are really wasting your time and tax dollars."

"I think what you're doing is laudable but to be involved in a so-called 'national panel' to input into some black hole is absolutely no interest on my part. I'd have to be convinced that someone is going to listen to what you are feeding back."

"Anything is worth a try and, therefore, to advance the cause of this ... I am personally more inclined to try and test what the result is in the end and if we find that it's a black hole we won't respond to it."

"You might also provide a valuable resource in linking private venture capitalists together from coast to coast."

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