Advisers have opportunity to deepen private market engagement

Most client allocations to private markets are either 5%-10% or 1%-5%

Isabel Baxter
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More than half of advisers and wealth managers are currently investing in private markets, with a further 20% expecting to do so in the next two years, Schroders has found.

Its Global Investor Insights Survey (GIIS) which includes 1,755 global wealth managers and financial advisers has found that that private equity (53%), multi-private asset solutions (47%) and renewable infrastructure equity (46%) are the three private market asset classes that advisers and wealth managers anticipate their clients to increase their allocations to over the next one to two years.   Two-thirds of respondents highlighted that the potential for higher returns than public markets is the most important benefit for investing in private markets for their clients. This was clos...

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