Ardian, a global private investment firm with $180bn AUM and supervision across its private equity, real assets, and private credit platforms, has launched Ardian Access SICAV-RAIF, an evergreen vehicle domiciled in Luxembourg.
The fund will be available around the world to professional investors only.
Ardian Access is a differentiated solution for investors looking to access private markets and diversify their existing exposure. The fund will seek to leverage a highly diversified, global portfolio of private assets managed by GPs across sectors, geographies, and company sizes, aiming to generate long-term value whilst mitigating risk and J-Curve effects.
Through Ardian Access, investors now have flexible access to Ardian’s secondaries, primaries, and direct co-investment platforms, which collectively manage close to $110bn AUM.
Ardian’s secondaries team has executed more than $40bn in secondary transaction volume in the past four years, while its co-investment team has invested alongside sponsors in more than 140 selected portfolio companies to date. Additionally, both teams have managed consecutive generations of diversified portfolios.
Ardian’s established secondaries and co-investment strategies, underpinned by a “buy what we know” investment approach focusing on high-quality sponsors and assets, as well as its comprehensive proprietary database spanning more than 650 GPs, 1,600 funds, and 10,000 portfolio companies.
Ardian’s global secondaries and co-investment teams are comprised of more than 125 professionals in 20 offices across the globe, which have built robust and trusted partnerships with a broad network of GPs, LPs, and portfolio company management teams.
Accessible investment minimums of €100,000 and immediate capital deployment from day one, aiming to maximise compounding and limit cash drag.
Ardian launched the fund in partnership with iCapital, the global fintech platform shaping the future of investing. Ardian will leverage iCapital’s full suite of servicing and technology solutions for evergreen funds to provide wealth managers and their clients with efficient access to alternative investment opportunities via Ardian Access.
Ardian successfully launched Ardian Access Solution FCPR in 2023, its first evergreen solution, a regulated fund with a similar investment strategy, marketed exclusively in France.
