Expanding your investor base: the UK DC and European and UK private wealth markets

In the face of various macro fundraising headwinds, private capital GPs increasingly seek future fundraising opportunities from new sources of capital outside the traditional institutional LP space.

In the UK, the defined contribution (DC) pensions market is now the fastest-growing investor segment, with occupational DC schemes managing around £600bn in assets. Strong policy momentum and continued ambition to increase exposure to private markets create significant opportunities for private capital managers.

On the individual pension and wealth side, the upcoming inclusion of LTAFs in ISAs and moves by the UK’s largest wealth platform to offer these products mark important steps towards wider access to private capital strategies.

Accessing a private wealth investor base more widely across Europe comes with substantial challenges, as there is no uniform approach. However, the right combination of product design and distribution channel can lead to successful private wealth fundraising by private capital GPs.

In this webinar, we explored how developments are reshaping the UK DC and European and UK private wealth landscape and what they mean for product development and distribution strategies.

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