Ardian has launched Ardian Access for Canadian professional investors, expanding the global private investment firm’s reach into Canada as demand grows for broader diversification and long-term value creation among private investors.

Ardian Access Canada will make the Ardian Access SICAV-RAIF available domestically, offering Canadian professional private investors an evergreen Luxembourg-domiciled fund first introduced globally in July 2025. The vehicle provides diversified exposure to Ardian’s global private equity platform, including secondaries, primaries and direct co-investments. (Ardian notes that Ardian Access is only accessible to eligible professional investors through a locally domiciled feeder fund that opened December 1.)

The Canadian rollout is supported by Ardian’s Montreal office, established in 2023 to deepen local relationships and provide direct access to its global expertise. The platform will soon extend to Ardian Access Infrastructure SICAV-RAIF, offering exposure to the firm’s infrastructure portfolio, which includes assets such as Heathrow Airport and Verne, and more than $57 billion CAD in infrastructure assets under management. The expansion is being carried out in partnership with iCapital.

The offering is designed to give private investors access to private markets traditionally limited to institutional players, said Ardian.

“Private clients are an important and fast-growing group of investors that account for more than half of Ardian’s LPs by number,” said Mark Benedetti, Ardian’s executive president. “With the introduction of Ardian Access in Canada, we’re extending our long-term commitment to providing private investors with scalable investment solutions that allow them to take advantage of Ardian’s market leading strategies.

“Our private-wealth-solutions team is experiencing significant growth as private investors and wealth managers seek greater exposure to the private markets, and Canada represents a natural next step in this global expansion.”

Ardian leverages a diversified global portfolio managed by general partners across sectors and geographies, aiming to generate long-term value while mitigating risk and J-curve effects. Through Ardian Access, Canadian investors will gain exposure to platforms representing more than C$150 billion in assets under management, including more than C$56 billion in secondary transaction volume executed over the past four years, said the company.

Ardian Access also offers exposure to the firm’s established secondaries and co-investment strategies, supported by its proprietary database covering more than 650 GPs, 1,600 funds and 10,000 portfolio companies.

“Secondaries are well suited to private wealth because they provide investors with wide diversification and can generate returns and cash flow quickly given their maturity,” said Vladimir Colas, an Ardian executive vice-president and co-head of the firm’s secondaries and primaries. “We have the world’s largest secondaries and primaries platform, run alongside a significant co-investment offer, and this means we can execute the largest and most complex transactions with the highest quality GPs and underlying investments.

“Over 20% of our latest Secondaries fundraise came through private-wealth channels, and we are delighted to be opening up our strategy to even more private investors through Ardian Access.”

Ardian’s global team includes more than 125 professionals across 20 offices. Ardian Access has accessible investment minimums starting at C$25,000, with capital deployment beginning immediately.

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