# AGM Unscripted: Goldman Sachs' Harold Hope - Secondaries: A Primary Consideration Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/alt-goes-mainstream-the-latest-on-alternative-investments-wealthtech-private-markets-1384568/agm-unscripted-goldman-sachs-harold-hope-secondaries-a-primary-consideration Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/alt-goes-mainstream-the-latest-on-alternative-investments-wealthtech-private-markets-1384568/agm-unscripted-goldman-sachs-harold-hope-secondaries-a-primary-consideration.md Podcast: [Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private Markets](https://stenobird.com/podcast/alt-goes-mainstream-the-latest-on-alternative-investments-wealthtech-private-markets-1384568) Published: 2026-02-12T12:20:48+00:00 Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/7276f76f Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/7276f76f/9a05717d.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/alt-goes-mainstream-the-latest-on-alternative-investments-wealthtech-private-markets-1384568/episodes/agm-unscripted-goldman-sachs-harold-hope-secondaries-a-primary-consideration Duration seconds: 1134 ## Resource Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. The Goldman Sachs Alternatives Summit “convened leaders across finance, geopolitics, technology, and culture” to discuss themes driving global markets. 2025’s Alternatives Summit was about “navigating a world in flux,” as the firm’s recap of its event noted. The event aimed to help investors cut through the noise and put together the pieces of the puzzle in a dynamic and increasingly complex world. Alt Goes Mainstream joined the event to have unscripted conversations with Goldman Sachs Alternatives leaders to cut through the noise by unpacking key themes and trends at the intersection of private markets and private wealth. In this special series, we went behind the scenes and interviewed six Goldman Sachs Alternatives leaders about their current thinking on private markets and how the firm has built and evolved its private markets capabilities. This conversation was with Harold Hope , Partner, Global Head of Vintage Strategies, one of the world's largest secondary fund managers, in the External Investing Group (XIG) within Goldman Sachs Asset Management . He is also Chair of the XIG Vintage Funds Committee and a member of the XIG Real Estate Strategies Investment Committee and the XIG GP Strategies Investment Committee. Harold joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 as an Associate in Leveraged Finance and Corporate Finance within the Investment Banking Division and moved to the Alternative Investments & Manager Selection (now XIG) private equity business in 2001. He was named Managing Director in 2006 and Partner in 2016. Prior to joining the firm, Harold worked as a financial analyst at the investment banking boutique Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co. Harold earned a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University o… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/alt-goes-mainstream-the-latest-on-alternative-investments-wealthtech-private-markets-1384568/episodes/agm-unscripted-goldman-sachs-harold-hope-secondaries-a-primary-consideration/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/alt-goes-mainstream-the-latest-on-alternative-investments-wealthtech-private-markets-1384568/agm-unscripted-goldman-sachs-harold-hope-secondaries-a-primary-consideration.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.