Private markets need more scrutiny than the sales pitch suggests
Genium’s Tim Murphy says advisers need to look far harder at structure, incentives and product design before embracing private market funds.
Genium’s Tim Murphy says advisers need to look far harder at structure, incentives and product design before embracing private market funds.
FinCap Group partners with BCA Research to launch an institutional-grade private-markets platform in June 2026, providing Australian wealth firms access to sophisticated alternative assets.
Atchison’s Kev Toohey says the rise of private assets is changing market structure, investor behaviour and the way portfolios need to be governed.
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A major transition is underway from “broken” buyout models towards growth capital with lower deal sizes and longer terms.
Escala Partners, one of Australia’s leading private wealth investment and advisory groups, is strengthening its commitment to alternative investments.
Private equity may seem like a world dominated by spreadsheets and enterprise value multiples, but if David Chan, portfolio manager at MLC, made one thing clear at The Inside Network’s Equities and Growth Symposium, it’s that the most successful investors are increasingly backing companies with a direct line into the future.
The secondaries market for private credit and private equity is finding growing appeal from an advice industry constantly searching for yield plays in the alternatives space.
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.
Every investor wants access to the private markets, and every manager – established or otherwise – wants to help them get it. But when there’s a new product every day, how many of them will be any good?
The structural advantages of private equity span every phase of the investment process, Ng told a room full of advisers and associates. During the buy, the hold and the sell, he said, PE outpoints traditional public market offerings.
New data from bfinance and Invesco sees Australian investors and sovereign funds reducing exposure to growth assets in favour of private markets
Sovereign wealth funds have hit pause on their internalisation programs as they discover that they aren’t naturals at private markets investing. And inflation and geopolitics are driving allocations to a broad range of alternative assets.