Understanding Co-Investments: A Guide to Private Market Opportunities

January 14, 2025

Co-investments have become an increasingly popular aspect of private markets investing, offering potential advantages for both Limited Partners (LPs) and General Partners (GPs).

By accessing investment vehicles that include co-investments, investors gain access to potentially attractive deals and can benefit from the private equity firms’ expertise and deal-sourcing capabilities. Additionally, co-investing may enable investors to acquire exposure to high-quality assets at lower fees, enhancing the potential for superior returns.

In this primer, we review how co-investments work as well as the benefits and challenges of co-investing. While this paper focuses primarily on private equity, coinvesting is available in other private market asset classes as well.

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