Wealth Management Invest: Expanding Access to Private Markets with Blackstone’s Farhad Karim
It offers a manager's account of the mechanics advisors have to explain to clients — repurchase limits and liquidity — in the evergreen structures now reaching the wealth channel. The discussion of education, specialist support and technology is useful context for due diligence conversations with a large private markets manager.
Summary
By the alternatives in wealth deskHost David Bodamer speaks with Farhad Karim, chief operating officer of Blackstone Private Wealth, about the growing adoption of private market investments among financial advisors and individual investors. The episode covers how evergreen and semiliquid fund structures are widening access, what advisors should understand about redemption limits and liquidity, and how Blackstone supports advisors through education, product specialists and technology. It also touches on diversification across private market strategies, the firm's collaboration with Wellington Management and Vanguard, and its investment focus on AI infrastructure, logistics, experiential assets and defense.
- Evergreen and semiliquid structures are changing how individual investors access private markets.
- Karim covers what advisors should understand about redemption limits and liquidity in private market funds.
- Blackstone supports advisors through education, product specialists and technology.
- The firm's stated investment themes include AI infrastructure, logistics, experiential assets and defense, and it cites collaborations with Wellington Management and Vanguard.
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