Broadening Access to Private Markets
Investing plays a crucial role in building wealth and ensuring long-term financial security. Broadening access to private investments can have significant economic opportunities for suitable retail investors with positive economic spillovers, if done responsibly.
Investing plays a crucial role in building wealth and ensuring long-term financial security. Broadening access to private investments can have significant economic opportunities for suitable retail investors with positive economic spillovers, if done responsibly.
How can industry and policy-makers broaden private market access safely and ensure it is a reliable source of diversification in retail portfolios?
The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Accenture and Lazard, focus on this question in the Broadening Access to Private Markets white paper. The paper shares insights into the opportunities, risks and innovations required to responsibly broaden access to individuals.
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