FinCap Private Markets Platform has launched a direct co-investment offering ahead of the debut of its broader platform later this year.
The offering, known as FinCap Direct, will sit alongside the firm’s managed portfolio solutions and provide access to individual private market opportunities across private equity and real estate.
Operating as a curated deal-flow pipeline within the platform, FinCap Direct will offer opportunities sourced through the firm’s domestic and global institutional investment partners. These may include single-asset real estate raisings, pre-IPO technology stakes and specialist closed-ended vehicles.
Each opportunity will be assessed by FinCap’s investment committee before being made available to platform members, the firm explained, and offers will open and close within set timeframes, with investors deploying capital directly into the underlying asset.
Christian Ryan, chair of FinCap, said the structure was designed to act as an alternative to traditional pooled investment vehicles.
“Rather than owning a fund with 50 positions, investors will own that asset directly,” he said.
Ryan said adviser and client demand for direct private market opportunities had continued to build.
“This is not a wish list,” he said, “This will be available in the second half of 2026.”
He also described the direct channel as a potential entry point for investors looking to access private markets for the first time before allocating to managed account solutions.
Initial opportunities are expected to focus on private equity and real estate.
Within private equity, FinCap is working with Potentum Partners, founded by Steve Byrom and David Simons, who previously led private equity strategies and mandates at the Future Fund.
Ryan said this relationship would provide access to global small and mid-sized businesses, particularly in technology and other growth sectors.
On the real estate side, FinCap pointed to its partnership with MA Financial, which uses a specialised strategy of owning and operating school camps on Australia’s east coast and, the firm explained, allows investors to own a specific portfolio of real estate assets as opposed to a more diversified fund of alternative real estate properties.
Ryan said: “FinCap is really the combination of the managed account offer and our direct offer. Together, they will provide clients and advisers the flexibility to pick and choose how they want to engage with private markets.”
FinCap Direct is set to be fully integrated into the platform from its launch day. When this will be appears unclear, however, as previous updates from FinCap have suggested June while this latest statement referenced the second half of 2026.
In April, FinCap announced a strategic partnership with BCA Research – an independent investment research house based in Canada offering specialist insights on private markets and alternatives to asset and wealth managers around the world.
Through the partnership with FinCap, BCA will support the firm’s development of asset allocation and portfolio construction frameworks for the FinCap Platform.
The platform aims to replicate institutional best practice by clearly separating asset allocation from fund selection. This means the fund level due diligence will be conducted independently while BCA will focus on anchoring the strategic and dynamic asset allocation process.
