Private markets

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Our expertise

Investing for over 85 years, we actively manage investments globally and regionally within Asia Pacific, Europe and the US, making us one of the largest asset managers in private markets worldwide. Our capabilities reach across the risk / return spectrum, ranging from core to value-add and opportunistic strategies. We offer direct real estate, infrastructure equity and debt, and food & agriculture investments as well as indirect exposure to leading real estate, infrastructure, private equity and private credit managers, including in specialist niche strategies. We have a diverse product range across open- and closed-ended private funds, investment trusts, listed funds, REITs and bespoke separately managed accounts.

Our industry leading private markets multi-managers platform combines the expertise of our real estate, infrastructure and private equity multi-manager units into a single integrated business. With over 20 years of experience, the business offers comingled funds and bespoke portfolio solutions to clients by investing with third party managers. Being structure agnostic, we are able to access the best transactions through primary funds, secondary purchases, co-investments, club deals, fund formations, and joint venture structures. Via scale, unique access and preferred terms, it aims to deliver strong risk adjusted returns by actively investing in leading fund managers in order to build diversified portfolios with exposure to what we believe are the most attractive markets and sectors.

Our approach

Expert teams

Our global teams of experienced specialists have a deep understanding of local market dynamics, ensuring value creation over the medium to long term.

Under one roof

Integrated solutions to optimize diversification through our joint expertise across real estate, food & agriculture, infrastructure, private equity and private credit, including in niche strategies.

Boots on the ground

Our market proximity through our extensive local office networks in major markets across Europe, the US and APAC allows us to source and execute investments as a local player backed by our wider global network.

ESG aspects

Our sustainable investment strategies consider long-term resilience, climate change, environmental, social and governance aspects when investing both directly and indirectly into private markets.

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