Private Wealth

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.

In the report: How the next stage of private equity’s democratisation is beginning; The evolution of evergreen vehicles; Expert analysis from industry leaders; And much more…

Gavin Ezekowitz, CIO at BFA Global Investors, says the industry must do a better job of managing liquidity events in unlisted funds.

A wealth manager dismisses evergreens as 'weapons of mass destruction'; what LPs are seeking from emerging managers in 2026; UK LPs face ongoing confusion over climate change.

Experienced and well-resourced GP stake investors can bring large-cap tools and skills to smaller GPs, positioning them for long-term success, say Investcorp’s Anthony Maniscalco, Ravi Thakur and Amir Rezvani.

AltamarCAM's secondaries capabilities were particularly attractive at a time of heightened interest in liquidity, Mercer's Michael Dempsey tells PEI in a Q&A alongside Jose Luis Molina.