EQT offers clients diversified wealth strategies to meet demand for new opportunities

Move by one of world’s leading private markets firms comes as Asia’s affluent investors look towards deep tech and climate science EQT – one of the world’s largest private markets firms – is taking steps to extend its expertise and institutional-quality access to a wider range of eligible clients. In practice, this means working with wealth industry partners to give sophisticated individual investors similar opportunities to those available to pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds, with the same rules and standards applying for governance, underwriting, operational rigour and investment oversight. The move is a response to clear demand over the past years from high-net-worth individuals in Asia and elsewhere who want the chance to generate stable returns while also tapping into the exciting possibilities offered by advances in deep tech, biotechnology and climate science. For EQT – which has held the EQT Impact Challenge in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong – that demand is structural rather than cyclical as increasingly sophisticated private wealth investors are seeking access to private markets opportunities that were previously available mainly to institutions.

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