Retail Investors

Jeff Hooke, senior finance lecturer at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, says individual investors will get 'milked for fees' accessing PE.

The firm wants to create an institutional-quality product for the retail market, according to BCP Credit head Ted Goldthorpe.

Western European personal investors hold three times the deposits of North Americans.

Disclosure, liquidity and operational challenges are among the issues GPs will need to address to tap this new market, according to Intertrust.

The asset management giant outlined large opportunities in private wealth, Asia-Pacific and sustainability during its latest investor day.

The platform joins the likes of Cambridge Associates, Blackstone and Credit Suisse in attempting to capture Asia’s burgeoning HNWI opportunity.

GPs will do well to heed calls for the PE industry to adapt to the shifting needs of institutional investors sooner rather than later.

Andrew McCaffery, chief investment officer at the $706.3bn asset management giant, says there's traction around the democratisation of the asset class.

The firm, which wants to raise more than $100bn by next year, has staffed up to focus more on individual investors, according to its co-president and co-COO.

2021 marks the year products aimed at tapping the defined contribution market see the light of day. Increased interest in such vehicles suggests more are soon to come.