Private assets are increasingly playing a significant role in institutional portfolio optimization, offering diversification and attractive return potential alongside traditional public investments.
Institutional investors face industry-wide challenges due to the fundamental differences between private and publicly listed assets and their impact on modeling approaches that underpin investment decision-making. To address these challenges, many are turning to innovative technologies, such as scenario-based machine learning, to develop more resilient and robust investment strategies.
Join us for this webinar, the concluding session of our Private assets in focus: Navigating investment decisions series, where Saiyan Raya, Investment Solutions Director and Hens Steehouwer, Chief Innovation Officer, will:
- Explore the challenges with portfolio optimization in today’s institutional investment landscape
- Explain how SBML can address the unique complexities of private assets, including illiquidity and broader portfolio risk implications
- Demonstrate how SBML can be applied to build optimal portfolios using a real-world case study, highlighting a three-dimensional lever approach across multiple portfolios with varying risk, return, and liquidity objectives
Webinar details
Date: | Wednesday November 6, 2025 |
Time: | Session one - 9:30am – 10:00am (CEST) |
(Two options available) |
Session two – 3:30pm – 4:00pm (CEST) |
Explore additional webinars on private asset investment decisions
Learn how to address private asset challenges across the investment decision-making process in other sessions from our five-part Private Assets in focus: Navigating investment decisions webinar series.
Topics include:
Investing in private assets through a climate change lens
- Understand the key climate considerations of private assets, across both challenges and opportunities
Private asset performance attribution to effectively analyze investment decisions
- Learn how performance measurement and attribution frameworks can be adapted for private assets
Understanding private assets in the institutional investment landscape
- Gain a deeper understanding of the risk/return profile of private assets, as well as key considerations when designing investment strategies
Private asset modelling to support strategic asset allocation
- Explore more effective approaches to modelling private asset classes in support of strategic asset allocation (SAA) decisions
Contact

Hens Steehouwer
Chief Innovation Officer (CIO)