Sarasin Bread Street

Sarasin Bread Street

Sarasin Bread Street launched in 2021 as the private-markets investment unit of Sarasin & Partners, the London-based asset manager with heritage dating to Bank J. Safra Sarasin's founding in 1841. In March 2022, Sarasin & Partners completed the acquisition that brought Bread Street fully into the group, creating a channel for the firm's pension-fund, charity, and private-client base to access unlisted assets. The team operates from Sarasin's London headquarters at Juxon House on St Paul's Churchyard. The unit focuses on building private-market portfolios through primary fund commitments, direct co-investments, and select secondary transactions. Sarasin Bread Street deploys across private equity, private credit, infrastructure, and real assets, with a geographic emphasis on developed markets in Europe and North America. The group has participated in fund commitments alongside established GPs and co-investment opportunities sourced through the broader Sarasin network, though individual deal names and fund sizes have not been publicly disclosed. The firm sits alongside Sarasin & Partners' core public-markets capability in equity, fixed-income, and multi-asset portfolios, which together manage assets on behalf of UK charities, pension schemes, and private clients. Sarasin Bread Street does not publish headcount, total deployment figures, or a list of investment professionals. No adjacent vehicles, philanthropic foundations, or club memberships have been publicly identified. February 2025: Sarasin & Partners appointed Lucy Walker as Head of Institutional Business, responsible for expanding private-markets distribution alongside traditional strategies (per the firm, February 2025). Sarasin Bread Street's structural distinction lies in its role as an internal private-markets capability bolted onto a multi-asset, stewardship-oriented public-markets house — a hybrid architecture that gives the group a proprietary sourcing edge through Sarasin & Partners' existing institutional relationships and its Swiss private-banking lineage.