Why reach private markets?
Opportunities you don’t see on the ASX.
Private markets can broaden your investable universe beyond listed equities, giving access to businesses and assets as they grow before IPO.
Built for wholesale Australian investors seeking institutional-grade private equity, private credit, infrastructure and real assets.
Why reach private markets?
A company’s lifecycle
Private markets funds can give you exposure to the entire lifecycle of a company, not just the listed phase, when much of the value is already captured.
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Why reach Private Markets?
Public markets are just a small slice of the whole market.
Fewer than 27% of companies earning A$100m+ revenue in Australia are listed. In the United States, it is only 13%.
Accessing these companies widens your investable universe to capture growth before they IPO.
Growth potential
Diversification
Lower volatility
Why reach private markets?
Long-term wealth creation.
Across long horizons, high-quality private markets have historically added meaningfully to portfolio outcomes versus public-only allocations.
Private equity returns are driven by operational value creation; private credit returns are primarily driven by contracted income.
Private markets don’t “win” every calendar year. What matters is the long run: backing specialist managers and committing steadily across vintages.
FS Investments, 2024.
Graph: Past performance is not indicative of future performance.
Why reach private markets?
It can really add up.
Even a modest allocation can compound meaningfully over time.
You'd be $1m better off if you had invested $100,000 at age 30, and included a 20% allocation to private markets, compared with an allocation to public markets only.
Value of hypothetical portfolio in nominal terms based on historical data to 31 July 2023, with returns averaged across all private equity. Past performance is not indicative of future performance.
Why reach private markets?
Uncorrelated returns and growth.
Correlation measures how often assets move together; lower correlation can smooth portfolio outcomes.
Not all assets move together. The power of private markets is that different strategies are driven by different engines: contracted cash flows, (private credit) operational control and value creation (private equity), and, in parts of infrastructure/real assets, explicit inflation linkage. That’s why adding the right mix can make the overall journey smoother.
What this means for you: Blending low- and moderate-correlated private assets with listed markets can reduce the ups and downs of your overall portfolio, without giving up long-term return potential.
Even where correlation is higher, the sources of return differ, which helps at the total-portfolio level.
Note: *Private equity has higher correlation with the S&P 500 but provides diversification benefits against global corporate bonds and treasuries. Preqin, 2024. Past performance is not indicative of future performance. Correlations change through cycles and often rise in market stress—diversification isn’t a guarantee. Private asset valuations are periodic (often quarterly) and can lag public markets; this can make correlations look lower in the short run.
Why reach Private markets?
Going beyond 60/40
The classic 60/40 framework relies on stocks and bonds behaving differently. In inflation shocks, that relationship can break down, as seen recently when equity–bond correlations rose sharply (2022 - 2025), just when you needed the cushion.
The addition of private markets can help diversify your portfolio.
Note: Past performance is not indicative of future performance. Barclays 2023.
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Top-tier access often comes with high minimums and oversubscribed funds.
Manager outcomes can vary widely. And administration is complex.
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