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Switzerland-Headquartered Partners Group Continues US Expansion

Partners Group is one of a number of private market investment firms that has become involved in the "evergreen," aka perpetual, fund structure as a way of entering this area. It has also been expanding its teams in the US.
Partners
Group, the private markets investment firm with more than
$150 billion in AuM, has appointed Anastasia Amoroso as managing
director and chief investment strategist for private wealth and
retirement. She will be joining the firm at the end of
June, based in New York.
Prior to this, Amoroso worked at iCapital, where she had
been chief investment strategist for the past four years.
Before this, she served in senior roles in investment strategy
and portfolio management at JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch.
Partners Group has made several recent senior hires: In February,
Phil Shankweiler joined as managing director and head of RIA
sales; he had been at Starwood Capital Group, where he was head
of RIA and multi-family office fundraising. Prior to that, he
served in a series of leadership roles in fundraising at Hartford
Funds.
Heather Grubbs joined as MD and global head of private wealth
marketing, based in Denver. Among Grubbs’ previous roles she
has been head of marketing communications at Global
Endowment Management, and MD in marketing at Ares Wealth
Management Solutions.
The firm says it is a prominent player in what are called
“evergreen” funds – open-ended funds that, unlike conventional
private equity, don’t have a pre-set exit date,
drawdowns and capital calls.
In September 2024, Partners Group announced a strategic partnership with BlackRock to launch a model portfolio solution streamlining retail wealth access to private equity, private credit, and real assets. In other examples, Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR – prominent players in the private markets space – have targed the wealth management segment as a source of capital.