Retail Investors

It’s easier than ever to participate in private markets, though GPs shouldn’t expect individual investors to be the only answer to plugging capital-raising gaps.

BNP Private Wealth Management, which has around €421bn in AUM, has revamped its digital platform to help individual clients access private equity and other offerings.

A full 63% of LPs worry about lower returns, though most are confident of maintaining access to the asset class, according to the latest Coller Barometer.

The French bank’s wealth unit, which raised over $1.3bn from clients last year, seeks to enhance digital offerings for its next-gen investor base, says its head of alts investments.

The private equity giant has brought in around 40 staff for its private wealth unit in the last six months, as it seeks to grow to a 300-strong team by year-end.

Transparency and education are key pillars for individual investor access to private equity, a panel has heard.

There is a growing number of liquidity providers looking for a piece of the private wealth market, all trying to demonstrate a distinct edge

Wealthy individuals must grapple with at least two setbacks compared with their institutional peers when considering adding private equity to their portfolios

It is getting easier for the affluent to invest in alternatives. But for GPs that want access to the wealth channel, it still takes significant resources and scale to develop dedicated propositions to target them

Fundraising platforms-turned-GPs are revolutionising a traditionally laborious commitment process for wealth managers and their clients