Moving away from the public glare: Why companies should make the move to listed private equity

Sector proving popular among retail investors

Listed private equity is being overlooked by wealth managers and small investors. This is in part because private equity is associated with major pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds and sizeable private foundations with large sums to invest and unconcerned by lack of immediate liquidity.

There is, however, a place for the retail or smaller investor. This is listed private equity, funds that themselves list on public stock exchanges so that investors can buy and sell shares as they would in any other company. Pictet Alternative Advisors launches first thematic private equity fund As the industry voice of listed private capital, LPeC recognises the need to do more to remind investors about listed private equity and explain why it matters. This is why we just published our annual market review, Accessing growth opportunities in the 2020s. Why should smaller investors ...