US headquartered Tiger 21, a peer-to-peer lending network for high net worth investors, reports an increase of private equity investment of one percent to 23% in the first quarter of 2016.

The group has approximately 400 members who manage $40bn in investable assets. Tiger 21 indicates that its members’ traditional "risk equity" allocation is now 70 percent when private equity is added to public equity and real estate allocations, and an even higher 78 percent when allocations to hedge funds are added in.

"In the past decade, we have seen Members double their investment allocations to private equity. It isn’t surprising that when challenged by a negative real interest rate environment, where you have to take risk of one form or another just to ‘keep up,’ says Michael Sonnenfeldt, founder and chairman of Tiger 21.

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