How to access private equity on a budget

Traditionally only available to institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals, Jock Green-Armytage, investment adviser to JZ Capital Partners Limited, explains how smaller retail investors can gain exposure.

Private equity has long held a reputation for being exclusively for the elite club of the very wealthy.  Institutional investors, such as multi-billion pound pension schemes and family offices, are well attuned to the sector’s potential to provide strong returns over the long term. For many individual investors however, private equity is perhaps less well understood. The asset class focuses on investment in companies that are usually privately owned rather than those listed on a stock exchange. Private equity firms can invest in high growth businesses, companies judged as being run in...