Ardian, a global private investment firm managing $180 billion in assets, has launched Ardian Access SICAV-RAIF, an evergreen investment vehicle based in Luxembourg. This fund provides professional investors with flexible access to a diversified portfolio of private assets.
Ardian Access leverages the firm’s extensive experience across secondaries, primaries, and direct co-investment platforms, managing nearly $110 billion. It aims to generate long-term value and mitigate risk by investing globally across various sectors and company sizes, overseen by high-quality General Partners (GPs).
With a minimum investment of €100,000, Ardian Access allows for immediate capital deployment while minimizing cash drag. Developed in partnership with iCapital, this fund provides wealth managers and clients with efficient access to alternative investment opportunities, making previously institutional-only options available to a broader range of private investors.
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“Private clients are an important and fast‑growing group of investors that account for more than half of Ardian’s LPs by number. Ardian Access represents our continued commitment to providing private investors with scalable investment solutions that allow them to take advantage of Ardian’s market leading strategies. Our Private Wealth Solutions team is experiencing significant growth as private investors and wealth managers seek greater exposure to the private markets, and we expect this will continue to grow in the coming years.”
Jan Philipp Schmitz, Executive Vice-President, Ardian
“Secondaries are well suited to private wealth because they provide investors with wide diversification and can generate returns and cash flow quickly given their maturity. We have the world’s largest Secondaries & Primaries platform, run alongside a significant co-investment offer, and this means we can execute the largest and most complex transactions with the highest quality GPs and underlying investments. Over 20% of our latest Secondaries fundraise came through private wealth channels, and we are delighted to be opening up our strategy to even more private investors through Ardian Access.”
Marie-Victoire Rozé, Deputy Co-Head of Secondaries & Primaries and Senior Managing Director, Ardian
“We are at an inflection point for private capital, with significant numbers of private investors now able to access private capital to diversify their portfolios and generate attractive, long-term returns. In line with this megatrend, the Ardian Access platform provides private investors with access to the same deals that Ardian has sourced for institutional investors since its inception almost 30 years ago. This marks a significant step to opening our deal flow to more investors.”
Erwan Paugam, Head of Private Wealth Solutions and Managing Director, Ardian
