What we offer our clients
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Pensions & savings
Providing enhanced equity returns and stable income strategies
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Infrastructure debt
Infrastructure debt finances social and economic projects which often have monopoly-like characteristics, providing investors with uncorrelated, high quality cash flows.
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Insurance
Designing portfolios that optimise regulatory and economic capital.
Nalaka De Silva
Head of Private Market Solutions
Nalaka is responsible for developing and implementing strategies across Private Markets for Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI). This includes Private Equity, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Natural Resources and Private Credit on a global basis. Solutions based strategies are designed around client outcomes including growth, income and inflation. Nalaka is the Portfolio Manager for the ASI’s Global Private Markets capabilities.
Nalaka joined Aberdeen Standard Investments in 2012. Prior to this, he held senior roles at Australian and European Investment management firms. He has lead M&A activity, off-market acquisitions and divestments of assets, offshore and onshore capital rising in debt and equity markets. Nalaka is a Qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a postgraduate degree in Commercial Law and Accounting.
Key Benefits
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Choice
We offer a range of products for insurance companies, pensions and savings customers, and wealth managers; including an innovative global private markets capabilities.
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Our approach
Our approach to building outcome based client portfolios is to seek the best investment ideas across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, natural resources and private credit. We invest in sustainable long term themes and manage risk through dynamic asset allocation and detailed portfolio construction.
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Transparent investment process
We have a structured, disciplined and transparent investment process that gives our clients a greater confidence in understanding the real risks of their private markets portfolio, including a proactive approach to environmental, social and governance factors.