Democratising Private Assets: Enhancing Opportunities for Wealth Portfolios

As private markets become an increasingly significant part of the economy, an important debate is taking place in the UK, EU and elsewhere about how to widen access to a broader group of investors beyond the institutional market. There exists great potential to better match the demand and supply for private assets through their ‘democratisation’, reaching deeper into the DC pensions, Private Wealth and Retail markets.

Coinciding with the launch of the UK’s new Long Term Asset Fund regime in late 2021, the IA and Goji Investments published the Weaving Private Assets into Wealth Portfolios: Evolving Structures to Meet Evolving Needs white paper that explores the interest among private wealth managers in making allocations to private assets in wealth portfolios, as well as the challenges they faced in doing so.