EQT Group’s William Vettorato on private market evergreens and semi-liquids
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William Vettorato, Managing Director, Head of Evergreen Fund Strategy, EQT Group
June 2026
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In this exclusive interview, William discusses how investors around the world are using evergreens as a solution for overcoming accessibility issues and the complexity involved with private markets investing. He explains that Australian investors have been at the forefront of adopting evergreens and shares his views on what investors should consider when considering allocating, as the adoption and proliferation of evergreen products continues.
Watch the full interview where we ask William:
What are the most consistent and practical ways investors are using evergreens to build out their private market exposures?
What can Australian investors learn from global peers in allocating to evergreens?
Do you expect the proliferation of evergreen products to continue and what should investors consider when allocating?
What areas of private equity is EQT excited about deploying capital into at the moment?
What are EQT’s views on liquidity, gating and valuations in semi-liquid funds?
William Vettorato, Managing Director, Head of Evergreen Fund Strategy, EQT Group
William joined EQT in April 2023 as Head of Fund Strategy from Partners Group, where he had been the Senior Portfolio Manager of their Global Value SICAV fund in addition to being responsible of the portfolio management of key private wealth management offerings (ELTIFs, master-feeder structures, joint-initiatives). When he resigned from Partners Group (November 2022) he was managing private markets portfolios in excess of EUR 11bn NAV.
Prior to joining Partners Group, William worked at Morgan Stanley in London as a financial engineer and exotic option structurer.
William holds a master’s degree in Financial Econometrics from the University of Venice, Italy and a master’s degree in quantitative finance from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
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