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Perennial Partners
Perennial Partners is a specialist investment management firm that owns equity in its funds and aligns interests with key staff and clients. The firm has made...
Perennial Partners
Perennial Partners is a specialist investment management firm that owns equity in its funds and aligns interests with key staff and clients. The firm has made 43 investments, including a Corporate Minority investment in Balmoral Investors on November 10, 2025. Perennial Partners has 2 portfolio exits, with the most recent being Ento on September 28, 2022.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
2004
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Oceania
Country
Australia
City
Sydney
Corporate office
Level 27, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Additional offices
Melbourne, Australia · Brisbane, Australia
Principals
Cesar Farfan
Head of Distribution
Abdul Elhage
Director, Institutional Sales
Marjon Crandall
Head of Researcher and Consultant Relationships
Scott Curtis
Director – Private Wealth and Family Office
Karl Linder
Regional Manager – Southern States
David Whitby
Senior Investment Specialist
Vlad Laevsky
Investment Specialist (QLD)
Sam Harris
Investment Specialist (NSW)
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
How is Perennial Partners structured — is it a single firm or a collection of boutiques?
Perennial operates as a holding company for specialist investment teams, each run as an executive-owned boutique. Teams like Perennial Value, Daintree Capital, and Fairlight Asset Management manage their own portfolios with autonomy, while Perennial provides shared distribution, compliance, and back-office infrastructure. This multi-affiliate model is designed to keep portfolio managers directly exposed to the performance of their strategies through co-investment and equity ownership.
Who runs investment decisions at Perennial Partners?
Investment decisions sit with the portfolio managers leading each specialist team. Perennial does not promote a single CIO overseeing all strategies. The public website names Abdul Elhage as Director of Institutional Sales and Scott Curtis as Director of Private Wealth and Family Office, but ultimate investment authority rests with the individual boutique heads who run their own books.
Does Perennial Partners operate any private-market strategies, or is it exclusively public equities?
Perennial Private Investments manages a Private to Public Opportunities Fund that invests in expansion, growth, and pre-IPO companies, often bridging private rounds and eventual ASX listings. Alongside this, the firm runs public-equity strategies across Australian small-cap, value, and large-cap mandates, plus absolute-return fixed income through Daintree Capital and ESG-focused equities through Perennial Better Future.
What investment stages does Perennial's Private to Public Opportunities Fund target?
The fund targets expansion and late-stage growth companies approaching a public listing, in addition to pre-IPO rounds. Perennial specifically flags the strategy as accessible only to wholesale and institutional investors under the Corporations Act 2001. Sector emphasis skews toward enterprise software, healthcare, and industrial technology, consistent with the firm's broader Australian small-cap research.
How does Perennial Partners source proprietary deal flow?
Perennial draws on its multi-boutique research platform — one of the largest dedicated small- and micro-cap teams in Australian equities — to build origination pipelines for the Private to Public Opportunities Fund. A thematic research note in April 2026 on supply-chain sovereignty (per Perennial Partners, April 2026) signals that industrial and technology company sourcing leans on the firm's domestic small-cap coverage, potentially generating private-investment leads from public-market research relationships.
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