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Why Cathie Wood And Robinhood Agree That Retail Investors Need Access To Private Markets – Robinhood Mark

Shifting Landscape

In an interview session, on Tuesday the discussion centered around ARK’s venture-focused interval fund and Robinhood’s newly launched closed-end private markets fund.

Both are designed to give retail investors exposure to private companies that traditionally remained accessible only to accredited investors and institutional capital.

Wood said the investing landscape has shifted dramatically as companies stay private far longer than in previous cycles.

She pointed to companies like

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