Private Equity

Private markets are worth around $14 trillion globally, ASIC believes. It’s not sure, and that uncertainty hints at the wider problem – private markets, and their effect on public ones, is still largely a mystery.

Long the bailiwick of institutional investors, private markets secondaries are now trickling down to the wealth space as the market grows and new vehicles expand access.

The phenomenal growth of private equity’s big players has left a yawning gap in the lower-mid market, which enterprising players like Fortitude Investment Partners are all-too keen to step in to and take advantage of.

With traditional equity managers losing the fight against passive product providers, diversification into more specialist classes of asset management may provide a more sustainable path. But that’s a pricey endeavour, and easier said than done.

A feeder fund for one of Barwon Investment Partners’ founding strategies has been rewarded for its robust return, securing a top rating from a second major research house.

Pessimists are still trying to shoehorn the “bubble” narrative into the private capital story, but an EY report highlights not only the rise of this burgeoning ‘alternative’ sector, but the reasons it’s likely to keep growing.

The private market sector has grown to the point that it has a thriving secondaries market operating behind it, which puts investors in line to benefit from the twin pillars of risk mitigation and upside return potential.

The Brisbane-based private equity team has made a point of seeking out investee companies that are well equipped to handle a slow-motion recovery in the domestic economy.

Private capital might house some of the most in-demand asset classes in the game right now, but the proliferation of providers just reinforces the need to know exactly what you’re good at and do it well.

The Brisbane-based private equity team is backing the further expansion of its New Zealand-based Action Adventures, which has just made its second US company acquisition.

When this biotech engineer met up with WNT Financial’s crack venture capitalism team, it sparked a partnership that could lead to a lifesaving product being put in the hands of doctors worldwide.

WNT Ventures was an early adopter into a grant scheme designed to nurture technology and innovation in New Zealand. After ten years, and as it prepares to launch its fourth fund, WNT’s Maria Jose Alvarez reflects on the journey.