Private Markets

Since the growth of non-bank lending in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, there is barely a global asset manager that does not espouse the virtues of Private Markets. 

Where AllianzGI Private Markets differs, stems from our origins. Our expertise in Private Markets has been designed and developed to meet the investment and social demands of our parent company, Allianz. With their active encouragement, we have pioneered investments into areas such as renewables, infrastructure debt, development finance and trade finance, each offering potential portfolio diversification and competitive risk-adjusted returns.  

Our offering now extends to a broad range of sophisticated investors with innovative solutions across the fields of infrastructure – debt, equity and secondaries – as well as private credit – be that direct lending, indirect or trade finance. And drawing on Allianz Group’s focus on sustainability, this expertise includes specialisms in renewables, development finance and the area of impact investing. 

With our experience and strength in Infrastructure and Private Credit, we believe we offer clients a unique combination of market access and sourcing capabilities together with a true solutions mindset.

Allianz Global Investors (“AllianzGI”), a leading active asset manager with over EUR 90bn* of assets under management in private markets, serves both Allianz and further institutional investors. By entrusting us with investments, clients can benefit from our expertise in extending and diversifying investment portfolios, enabling to achieve investment goals also during market dislocations. 

*data as at 30 June 2025  

Figures at a glance

over EUR 90bn*
AUM in Private Markets

*data as at 30 June 2025

With circa 170
experienced investment professionals investing since 1996

5 reasons to partner with AllianzGI

At AllianzGI, we know how to build and manage a portfolio, having done so from the outset for Allianz, one of the largest investors in private credit and infrastructure globally. AllianzGI provides institutional investors access to a broad range of indirect and direct strategies ranging from private debt and private equity, to infrastructure and impact.
Investing in private markets offers opportunities for earning a premium over public markets returns and a risk-return profile for long-term investors. We develop a range of illiquid investment solutions, designed to meet expectations from conservative to more ambitious.
AllianzGI has been investing on behalf of Allianz for over a quarter century. With our global reach and a long-term view we are combining a risk-wise approach with a forward-looking mindset.
Our expertise, longstanding experience and our strong network with relevant stakeholders creates unique market access which we translate into differentiated deal origination opportunities worldwide.
AllianzGl is an established active investment manager with dedicated experts, allowing sourcing and structuring of complex transactions, smooth execution and settlement. We have a track record of shaping clients’ experience of private markets with our strong delivery on our promises.

Our private market capabilities

Infrastructure

Infrastructure is an asset class for institutional investors that aims to provide long-term stable returns and cash flows. Investing on behalf of one of the leading infrastructure investors globally 1 and further institutional investors, we have made over 250 investments across 6 continents, supporting sectors that drive the energy transition, digitization and urbanization.

Our team

Our Infrastructure platform has been active in the primary market on behalf of Allianz and our additional institutional clients since 2008. The team differentiates itself through strong sourcing capabilities, asset management with a long-term view, innovative financial engineering and enhanced credibility.

Our capabilities

We strive to source high quality assets with attractive illiquidity and complexity premia and offer access to a diversity of sectors that would otherwise be closed to public investors. As one of the first movers we can rely on partnerships with relevant sponsors and banks and other stakeholders.

Infrastructure debt is an asset class for institutional investors that aims to provide long-term stable returns and cash flows. As one of the leading infrastructure investors globally 1, we source high credit quality Infrastructure Debt transactions by identifying, differentiating and managing risk.

Our Infrastructure Debt Projects

Solar farms in Chile, data centres in the US, hybrid ferries in Norway, or battery-powered trains in Germany – they are all investments we made. Our Infrastructure Debt team is an experienced and well-resourced team with a successful operational platform and investment process. Since the platform was established in 2012, the team has closed over 150 transactions in over 20 countries across Europe and the US, spanning a variety of asset classes, from public-private partnerships (“PPP”) to utilities and renewables.

The team

Our Infrastructure Debt platform has been active in the primary market on behalf of Allianz and our additional professional clients since 2012. The team differentiates itself through the sourcing and origination of private placements, innovative financial engineering and the enhanced credibility.

The capabilities

We strive to source high quality assets with attractive illiquidity and complexity spreads and offer access to a diversity of sectors that would otherwise be closed to public investors. As one of the first movers we can rely on partnerships to relevant sponsors and banks and other stakeholders.

Given our long-term investment horizon, we focus on investments that provide stable, preferably inflation-linked cash flows over the long term. With attractive return potential, steady regular income and a very low correlation with the capital market as a whole, infrastructure equity offers an interesting opportunity to improve the portfolio structure2.

Our Infrastructure equity projects

A stable power grid for Finland, an attractive fibre rollout to the home network in Germany and a modern underground network in Spain – these are three examples of our 25 long-term infrastructure equity investments. Our infra fund and co-investment team has made over 60 investments across 6 continents. By investing in funds, we can further contribute to the diversification across fund managers, vintage years, sectors, and geographies and accelerate the deployment of capital.

Furthermore, our renewables team invested in over 150 wind and solar farms worldwide.

The team

Our infrastructure direct equity team was established in 2007 which was expanded to indirect investments in 2016. Since 2005 our renewable energy team has been investing in wind and solar farms.


The capabilities

We invest in assets that provide essential services to the public and are supported by regulated or contracted revenues, or a strong market position with a focus on energy transition, sustainable investments and digitization. We pursue opportunities globally, focusing on countries with a well-established fiscal and regulatory track record.

Private Credit

Private Credit offers institutional investors investment opportunities with competitive risk-adjusted returns and strong downside risk mitigation. We have been financing the debt of low to mid-market private corporates since 2013. We believe that diversification across asset managers, geographies, sectors, styles and vintage years is essential to utilize the full potential of private debt & equity for our long-term investors.

Our team

Allianz was one of the early investors in private debt with a cycle-tested record since 2007. With the ambition to provide innovative and diversified investment solutions to clients, the platform has continued to expand its reach both in terms of geography and investment focus over recent years.

Our capabilities

Allianz was one of the early investors in private markets. Our capabilities range from Global private credit to European private credit, Asia private credit and trade finance. On the sustainability continuum, our platform offers the entire spectrum, including sustainability improvers and impact focused approaches. Thanks to our longstanding investment experience and expertise we can rely on a strong international network to renowned partners with privileged market access.

Global Private Credit

Our Global Private Debt programme invests in a suite of strategies that provides access to broadly diversified global private debt portfolios with strong downside risk mitigation The capabilities invest in private debt primaries, secondaries and co-investments worldwide that finance mid-sized companies’ needs in various situations such as expansion or, growth. Throughout the portfolio diversification will be sought across sectors, geographies and underlying investments.

Pioneered by Allianz, in 2021 the programme was opened to additional institutional investors. The team invests broadly across the private credit universe in senior lending, subordinated and special situations capabilities.

European Private Credit 

The team provides senior long-term financing to mid-market companies, either to support their growth or to refinance, with a focus on performing companies benefiting from a good track-record of profitability.

The European Private Credit team invests through a wide range of opportunities, either directly originated or intermediated. It aims at providing diversification away from the public markets and a balanced risk/return profile through credit selection and the robust documentation of investments.

Asia Private Credit

AllianzGI launched the platform in 2018, recognizing the opportunity for institutional investors to invest in the region, driven by a significant funding gap for mid-market corporates in Asia seeking bespoke credit solutions for the purposes of growth acquisitions or refinancing.

To best capture this opportunity, we seek to act as a “one-stop” shop for structured credit solutions and provide customized holistic non-dilutive credit alternatives to cash generative, high growth, performing mid-cap companies via senior secured, subordinated or mezzanine lending. Our team provides debt financing to middle market corporates in Asia Pacific (excluding China) in order to capture competitive yield pick-up compared to comparable public debt (e.g. high yield, broadly syndicated loans) with strong downside risk mitigation providing diversification within the credit asset class.

Trade Finance

Trade finance helps suppliers to receive payment earlier by providing ultra-short-term financing for their invoices. Such investments benefit from returns that are uncorrelated to other private or public market investments. Our trade finance solutions provide investors with liquidity and a high Sharpe ratio. Trade finance has multiple places in investment portfolios and as a result, we have a diverse mix of pension funds, family offices, treasury and insurance investors across Europe, the UK and Asia.

While trade finance is effectively short-term credit investing, it brings with it a higher operational complexity than public credit and therefore requires the right operational framework, a robust infrastructure and a thorough due diligence process. With these in place, investors can capture a compelling complexity premium.

AllianzGI launched its trade finance platform in 2019. The success is due to our unique approach to trade finance where we have designed our strategy to allow very broad diversification by sourcing partner, industry, company, and geography as well as a robust credit process. Unlike some other trade finance capabilities our approach’s value chain covers every step of the investment and operational process. This has allowed us to avoid the default and fraud cases that have hit the headlines in recent quarters and deliver our strong track record.

Impact investments are investments that, in addition to seeking a financial return, are also expected to have a positive impact on the environment or society. It is important that the targeted ecological and/or social effects are explicitly part of the investment approach.

The team

At AllianzGI, we strive to provide our clients access to investments generating positive environmental and social outcomes. For a long time ‘investing in a good cause’ was not regarded as an investment activity in the strict financial sense but was assigned to the area of charity.





The capabilities

What was a niche about 10 years ago is turning into one of the fastest growing investment segments: ranging from Blended Finance through Private Credit to Private Equity. Within Emerging Markets, we focused on blended finance strategies with development banks. For our impact capabilities we utilize the AllianzGI impact framework which requires a minimum impact score per investment. Our impact approach focuses on companies who through their operation seek to provide solution to planet and society’s major challenges.

Blended Finance

Blended finance is a technique used to enable commercial investors to access emerging markets debt opportunities in a scalable and de-risked way, thereby supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Blended finance provides access to this new asset class of impactful investments and focus on investing in sectors and geographies that are under-represented in public markets. We believe such capabilities can provide investors with de-risked, uncorrelated returns in emerging markets.

At AllianzGI, the Development Finance team enables leading institutional investors to co-invest in a portfolio of loan participations that support the sustainable development goals in Emerging Markets.

Impact Credit

Our strategy launched by AllianzGI in 2024. Through direct lending instruments, we aim to accompany the development of impact champions that are providing solutions to societal challenges with a focus on three core themes: climate change, planetary boundaries and inclusive capitalism.

We believe that private equity is a growing and attractive asset class for institutional investors that seek to create long-term value. With its active management approach, as well as ample opportunities for diversification, we are convinced that this asset class holds its long-term appeal, even in times of market turbulence.

The team

We have been active in the area of private equity investments since 1996. We have built a balanced global portfolio, based on diversification across geographies, sectors, managers and vintage years.


The capabilities

By investing in private equity funds, we spread our investments across a pool of privately owned companies. It offers us the opportunity to invest across a range of company sizes, benefiting from the different investment styles. Our global coverage gives us access to different geographic markets and economic cycles.

Our Private Equity Projects

The Allianz Private Equity team invests in private equity funds worldwide, and covers the entire spectrum, from buy-outs to growth equity in both primary and secondary markets. In addition, it is also active in the area of co-investments, whereby it invests alongside our private equity managers.

In order to deal with the consequences of climate change, we require investment in a completely different order of magnitude. The world can only overcome this challenge if private capital is mobilized alongside limited public funds. Only the former is available in abundance, for example to finance the transition to renewable energies in Africa - and to do this now so that the continent does not continue to rely on fossil fuels. However, because the risks are high and many markets are untested, private investors cannot easily invest their clients’ money into such projects. Public capital is therefore added as a buffer in order to reduce the default risk for private investors to a normal level. As soon as the risk-return profile is right, private investors are very open to investments of this kind.

Our capabilities in more detail

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Global private debt
European private credit
Asia private credit
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1 Source: Top 100 Infrastructure Investors 2024: Full ranking | Special Reports | Real Assets
2 The performance of the strategy is not guaranteed and losses remain possible

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