Democratisation

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.

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.

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