Top1000Funds Investor Profile: Richard Fanshawe, Head of Private Markets

An article in Top1000Funds has explored the progress achieved across seven years by Brunel’s private markets team, under the leadership of Richard Fanshawe.

The article highlights the scale of the allocation vs pre-pooling, the range of sustainable projects, the diversity of partnerships involved, and the significant place of co-investments, among other areas.

“Fanshawe credits much of the growth in the allocation to private markets to Brunel’s “innovative model”, characterised by selecting fund investments internally alongside working with strategic partners (that are also global leaders in their asset classes) to select co-investments and funds where applicable,” writes Sarah Rundell. “He says their expertise complements and acts as an extension of Brunel’s internal team of 12 private markets investment professionals – there were just five at the start.”

You can access the full article here: https://www.top1000funds.com/2025/04/brunel-links-push-into-private-markets-to-innovative-model/