Betashares opens new private assets investment arm | Australian Markets

Betashares has additional diversified its financial providers offering with the launch of a devoted private markets investment arm, Betashares Private Capital.

The firm stated the new division and its ‘institutional grade’ options will tackle the surging demand for private market investment alternatives from Australian traders and financial advisers by partnering with “leading global private asset managers”.

Betashares chief govt, Alex Vynokur, stated the division’s main aim is to broaden entry to investment alternatives which have been “traditionally… reserved for the world’s largest investors”.

“For nearly 15 years, we have consistently raised the bar, providing convenient and cost-effective access to high quality investment solutions,” he stated.

“We have pioneered the supply of entry to a growing vary of asset lessons and investment types which have traditionally been the area of institutional traders. We’re now taking the subsequent step by offering entry to private assets consistent with our guiding worth of building cost-effective and diversified wealth options.

“Despite the increased demand for private assets, Australia remains relatively underserved by high quality, global investment options. We believe there is a real opportunity to address this gap, and with that enable Australian investors and their financial advisers to have the opportunity to improve risk adjusted returns in portfolios by including robust, diversified private asset investments.”

Betashares additionally introduced its first fund supervisor associate, US-based private markets specialist Cliffwater. The partnership will see Cliffwater’s flagship US private credit strategy be made obtainable as an AUD-hedged unlisted fund, leveraging Betashares’ attain within the Australian markets to launch on investment platforms for financial advisers and on Betashares’ own platform – Betashares Direct – for eligible wholesale traders.

Cliffwater’s US private credit strategy additionally harnesses its underlying Corporate Lending Fund Platform to gain publicity to direct loans for US center market firms, powered by a ‘multi-lender’ model to assemble a “highly selective and diversified portfolio”.

The Fund Platform at the moment has publicity to virtually 4,000 loans throughout a number of sectors together with IT, healthcare, industrials and financials, having returned 9.63 per cent each year internet of charges in US {dollars} since inception in June 2019 (as of 30 June 2025).

Betashares additionally indicated that its partnership with Cliffwater will lengthen additional throughout its Fund Platform and its suite of private markets interval funds, together with US$30 billion in its flagship private credit fund.

“Our US private credit funds have seen significant investor interest given their performance and highly diversified and defensive nature of their investment strategies,” Cliffwater Founder and CEO, Stephen Nesbitt, stated.

“Our US private credit methods have additionally been cycle-tested, producing engaging ranges of income with low volatility throughout a vary of completely different market circumstances.

“Our unique multi-lender model has allowed us to avoid the pitfalls of other private credit funds that are often far more concentrated in single positions or sectors, while also maintaining strong, risk-adjusted total returns.”

Betashares stated its first private credit publicity is on monitor to launch by the top of the month.