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Growing demand from retail investors has made the democratisation of private markets an inevitability, says Moonfare’s Dr Steffen Pauls.

With demand from individual investors on the rise, fund managers should curate their investor base with due care and attention, say Partners Group’s Rob Collins and Christian Wicklein.

The secondaries market is a logical entry point for private wealth clients looking to access private markets, say UBS’s Tanja von Ehrlich and Jochen Mende.

For individual investors who have been considering participating in private markets, the time to move is now, say Schroders’ Nathalie Krekis and Schroders Capital’s Georg Wunderlin.

Private equity firms are increasingly seeking ways to generate value through ESG across the investment lifecycle, say ERM’s Andrew Radcliff and Claudia Solaini.

GPs and LPs are stepping up their global ESG efforts to collect decision-useful data, say Anne Matusewicz and Jérémy Rasori at Reporting 21.

Managers will need to focus on delivering alpha as the private equity industry faces a more volatile market, say Ares’ Matt Cwiertnia and Scott Graves.

With investors placing more scrutiny on domiciling decisions, international finance centres must stay ahead of future trends or risk being left behind, say Elliot Refson and Philip Pirecki at Jersey Finance.

Investor requests for data and transparency are driving managers to ask for more assistance from service providers, say Apex Group’s Henk Pieter van Asselt and Georges Archibald.

The asset class should welcome more private individual investors, but products must be carefully tailored to their needs, say Neuberger Berman’s Peter von Lehe, Maura Reilly Kennedy and José Luis González Pastor.