Private Equity

The Australian asset manager is building up its Asia wealth team, as it bets on rising demand for private infrastructure among Asia’s wealthy individuals.

The insurance company is taking on Hong Kong’s wealth market by slashing entry barriers, allowing investors to tap into private equity and infrastructure for as little as $10,000.

The move aims to lower the entry barriers for private investors to institutional-grade private equity.

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Earlier this year, the firm bolstered its traditional asset management scale with the US$1.8 billion purchase of Macquarie’s U.S. and European public asset management businesses.

A key feature of EQT Nexus is its evergreen structure, designed to offer private wealth investors greater flexibility compared to traditional, closed-ended private equity funds.

The Carlyle Group is seeing powerful acceleration in its global wealth business, with CEO Harvey Schwarz calling wealthy individual investors a key "growth engine" as the firm posts $17 billion in quarterly inflows driven largely by private credit and secondary market strategies.

The expansion is strategically aimed at capitalizing on Ardian's significant existing operations in the region.

The two firms have entered a strategic partnership to construct and deliver a suite of multi-asset portfolio solutions for individual and institutional investors.

In the dynamic landscape of Asian wealth management, success hinges on a seemingly contradictory strategy: the discipline of patient, long-term building coupled with the agility to capitalize on immediate openings.

The UHNWI segment is a strategic focus of Bank of Singapore. In 2024, assets under management in this segment recorded a double-digit year-on-year growth.

The move comes as the US$840 billion alternatives giant eyes US$150 billion in wealth channel assets by 2029, following recent Asian expansion and strong quarterly earnings.