Launch of Brightlight Select
Brightlight Select Launches to Unlock Thematic Impact Strategies for Australian Investors
Brightlight today announces the launch of Brightlight Select, an investment suite, co-designed with advisors providing access for Australian investors to a curated selection of high-quality, thematic investment strategies. Partnering with wealth managers, family offices, and institutional investors, Brightlight Select is co-creating multi-manager solutions that deliver robust portfolio returns alongside authentic impact outcomes.
Unlike traditional funds management, Brightlight Select leverages Brightlight’s institutional research and consulting platform to curate investment opportunities, allowing the industry to benefit from the due diligence and ability to structure multi-manager vehicles. The platform removes the barriers to accessing quality specialist and foreign managers by offering efficient investment structures that facilitate broader investor access.
“Australian investors and their advisors want solutions that serve a role in the portfolio to deliver both attractive income and meaningful outcomes. Brightlight Select works with capital allocators to structure vehicles that benefit from the economies of scale that comes with the aggregation of capital through research, vehicle structure, management and currency hedging. Through our platform we can deliver investors unique access to more niche thematic strategies and specialist fund managers that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to invest in.” - Sam Richards, Managing Director
Brightlight Select will launch with a Global Private Credit strategy focused on Financial Inclusion and Gender. Designed primarily with endowment and foundation investors in mind, this strategy will target a compelling annual yield, giving investors a way to advance gender equality (SDG 5) while gaining exposure to leading global private credit managers. The strategy addresses the USD 1.7 trillion gender gap by improving financial inclusion in developed and developing markets—particularly for women-owned, women-led, and women-focused businesses. Future strategies are in planning to provide exposure to compelling opportunities across climate solutions, First Nations initiatives, and the circular economy.
Brightlight Select delivers:
Collaborative Strategy Development – Co-designing values-aligned solutions with investors
Institutional Due Diligence – Highly experienced research analyst team in both public & private markets, and impact
Access to Specialist Managers – Pipeline of high-quality managers typically inaccessible to mainstream allocators
Efficient Structures – Fee efficient umbrella vehicles with currency hedging, blended allocations, and diversification
Thematic & Impact Frameworks – Market leading impact reporting frameworks
Thought Leadership & Market Engagement – Gender Lens Workshops and state-of-the-market insights on private credit and climate solutions