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Almost all (97%) private markets fund managers questioned agree that increases in companies remaining privately-held and a rise in lending outside the traditional banking sector mean that many of the most compelling investments are no longer available on publicly listed markets. Its study with UK based private market fund managers working for organisations managing assets of around GBP2.365 trillion across private equity, private credit, infrastructure and real estate found they expect the trend to increase over the next five years.

Almost half (46%) expect the switch away from publicly-listed markets will increase dramatically while another 39% predict a slight increase over the period.

The study for Wealth Club, which launched the UK's first investment fund supermarket for semi-liquid private markets funds targeting sophisticated individual investors last November, shows they expect the percentage of companies globally with revenues of more than $100 million which are private to increase over the next three years. Currently around 88% of the 159,000 firms globally with revenues of more than $100 million are privately-held. The study found nearly nine out of 10 (87%) of private market fund managers expect that percentage to increase. Around 26% predict a dramatic increase.

Wealth Club has negotiated access to private market funds from some of the world's best-known specialist managers. Currently there are 13 funds from ten managers on the platform with minimum investment amounts from GBP10,000.