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PATIENT CAPITAL
"The New Bridge between Institutional Funds and Family Capital"

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MODERATOR

Maria Andrea Villanueva

Deputy Director
ColCapital

TOPIC

1. The Renaissance of Patient Capital: Beyond Immediate Returns

Explores the modern meaning of patient capital—investing with long-term vision, resilience, and purpose.Analyzes how this mindset contrasts with the short-term orientation of traditional markets.

Seeks to answer: why has “time” become a strategic asset in today’s capital management?

2. Institutional Funds and Family Offices: Collaboration for Sustainable Growth

Examines how institutional investors (pension funds, insurers, sovereign wealth funds) and family capital can create synergies. Addresses co-investment models, hybrid partnerships, and strategic alliances that combine institutional scale with family flexibility. Highlights the value of trust and the alignment of investment horizons between both actors.

3. Investment Vehicles and Structures for Patient Capital

Presents the most effective vehicles for channeling patient capital—evergreen funds, long-term private equity, impact funds, infrastructure, and sustainable venture capital, among others.

Discusses how to adapt legal and tax structures that promote permanence, stability, and purpose.

Showcases examples of successful international structures.

4. Impact Investing and Sustainability: Purpose as the Driver of Returns

Analyzes how patient capital prioritizes lasting social, environmental, and economic impact.

Shows how ESG criteria and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are integrated into long-term investment strategies. Seeks to redefine profitability as “value that endures, not just multiplies.”

5. Governance, Trust, and Legacy: The Culture of the Long Term 

Examines how strong governance and family or institutional values sustain a long-term vision.

Emphasizes the importance of transparency, generational alignment, and expectation management.

Seeks to answer: how can patience be preserved in an increasingly volatile, short-term world?

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