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Individual investors are increasingly being provided with institutional-quality access to private markets, say Brett Schlemovitz, partner and president of StepStone Private Wealth, and Miguel Sosa, managing director at StepStone.

Embracing private wealth solutions can help longstanding institutional LPs as well as smaller private wealth investors, says Erwan Paugam, senior managing director and head of private wealth solutions at Ardian.

The expansion of private markets is underpinned by nuanced innovation in fund structures and sponsor partnership, say Nicole Runyan, Brad Green and Jamie Hahn, partners in the investment funds practice at Kirkland & Ellis.

The democratisation of private equity is not about granting access to private markets, but restoring prior access to economic growth, says Rajib Chanda, global head of asset management at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

Hybrid fund structures are an increasingly attractive route to democratisation, say Ropes & Gray’s Keith MacLeod and Capital Group’s Erik Vayntrub and Clara Kang.

It is still possible to build, transform and exit businesses in this unsettled market, but quality matters more than ever, says Partners Group’s Ben McLean.

Market volatility, an evolving investor base, rapid technological change and an ongoing lack of liquidity are helping to make the case for secondaries, says Pomona Capital CEO Michael Granoff.

Innovation is accelerating, and private markets investors with preferential access to high-quality AI opportunities should be well positioned to benefit, according to Adams Street Partners’ Brijesh Jeevarathnam and Stephen Bluestein.

China’s structural advantages in AI position it at the heart of the industry’s future, making it essential for investors seeking meaningful exposure, says Vitalbridge founding partner Jinjian Zhang.

As GP-led secondaries establish themselves as an accepted route to liquidity, the intersection with preferred equity financing is gaining prominence, says Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s Drew Harmon.