Private Investments

ELM Responsible Investments provides eligible clients with access to innovative, high-growth companies before they reach public markets. These opportunities sit outside traditional stock exchanges and are offered through ELM's dedicated private investment structures.

We source and evaluate each opportunity through our Investment and Sustainability Frameworks, ensuring every investment meets our dual goals of sustainability and long-term returns. Selected opportunities are then presented to clients, allowing you to choose which companies to back and at what level.

This approach delivers targeted private market exposure that complements your listed portfolio, while maintaining our disciplined focus on risk, valuation, and long-term impact.

  • According to McKinsey’s Global Private Markets Report 2024 and S&P Global, global private markets assets under management are estimated to be approximately US$13–14 trillion. This highlights how a significant share of value creation is taking place in unlisted companies.

    Furthermore, analysis by iCapital shows that companies are remaining private for longer, with the median age at IPO increasing over recent decades as abundant private capital, higher public‑market regulatory requirements and a desire for greater strategic flexibility all contribute to firms delaying listing. For long‑term investors, this means private markets are an increasingly important avenue to access impactful, innovative and high‑growth businesses, particularly in areas such as AI, digital infrastructure and the energy transition.

  • ELM periodically offers private investment opportunities to existing clients through single‑deal Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV), giving investors the flexibility to decide where and how much to allocate on a deal‑by‑deal basis. These allocations are designed to sit alongside ELM’s listed strategies, extending the same research‑driven, innovation‑focused and sustainability‑first philosophy into earlier stage or pre‑IPO businesses that are not yet available in public markets.

  • Each private opportunity is selected to reflect ELM’s commitment to innovation, growth and long-term sustainability outcomes.

    The focus is on high‑quality companies exposed to structural themes and solving real‑world problems.

    These opportunities reinforce the same values and investment discipline that guide ELM’s Global and ANZ Funds.