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Private Assets

Accessing specialist investment opportunities

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Different sources of return

In a climate of lower interest rates and elevated valuations, your clients need their investments to work harder. A standard equity and bond portfolio may not always deliver the growth and diversification they need.

Including alternative sources of return from private assets can potentially improve overall returns and increase portfolio diversification to better match your clients’ long-term goals.

Long-term themes and unique opportunities

The term private assets includes private equity, private debt, infrastructure and real estate. These asset classes may enable access to exposures or industries that can be difficult to access through traditional asset classes, but which may offer attractive income or capital growth characteristics. Each area has different drivers, so returns may not move in line with mainstream stock markets.

However, private assets are not without challenges. They can have high minimum investment levels and may be complex and illiquid, so detailed knowledge is important.

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160 years of experience

We’ve been involved in the world of private assets for over 160 years.

We helped finance the improvement of Cuba’s rail network in 1853 and the construction of Japan’s first railway between Tokyo and Yokohama. We have a strong history in private equity and participated in the first round financing of both Facebook and Google. We have also invested in real estate since 1971 and now have a 49% stake in Neos, the largest specialist direct lending platform to small and medium sized businesses in Holland.

Dedicated in-house expertise

Our investment teams consist of experts with detailed, specialist knowledge of their specific area of the private assets landscape. They work to find opportunities, long-term trends and themes to complement equity and bond portfolios. We are big enough to have deep resources and skills, but small enough in these asset classes to be able to access opportunities that others may be less able to exploit.

Broad choice

We are one of a handful of companies with a truly diverse range of capabilities across private assets. Our range of options aims to provide higher returns, lower risk and to deliver diversification for your clients’ portfolios. 

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What are the risks?

Past performance is not a guide to future performance and may not be repeated.

The value of investments and the income from them may go down as well as up and investors may not get back the amounts originally invested. Exchange rate changes may cause the value of any overseas investments to rise or fall.

Alternatives can be more volatile than shares and bonds, and it may be harder to cash in the investment at short notice.

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