INDEPENDENT EXPERTISE FOR PRIVATE MARKETS
People do not hire firms.
They hire people to solve problems that matter.
Private markets remain bespoke and lack much of the standardization typical of public markets.
New initiatives, business lines, products and transactions often depend on decisions across strategy, investment, product, distribution, risk and governance.
When those dependencies do not align, the result can be delay, redesign or restructuring — with consequences for KPIs, P&L, client expectations and trust.
This is when clients turn to Oliver Heiland and Capital for Resilience Advisors.
We work with asset managers, banks, insurers and long-term investors to identify what is preventing an important initiative from moving, strengthen the critical decision and translate it into an executable next step — on an ad hoc, project or long-term retainer basis.
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INDEPENDENT ADVICE FOR PRIVATE MARKETS
Board-level advice for Private Markets
In private markets and in long-term capital systems such as the new German private pension channel, execution risk often sits between business strategy and those functions responsible for implementation: product, legal, tax, risk, distribution and governance.
We support decision-makers and senior teams
to assess critical dependencies independently,
to design a coherent, executable and board-ready architecture before capital, resources or reputation are committed, and
where capital, resources or reputation are already at stake, we with an independent perspective to design actionable measures.
This is where Capital for Resilience Advisors adds specific value. Independent, experienced and with a global network across leading legal, tax & audit firms, regulators and academia.
We advise asset managers, banks, insurance companies and long-term investors navigating strategic, investment and governance challenges. We work with boards, senior decision-makers and cross-functional in-house teams on an ad hoc, project-specific or long-term basis.
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About Capital for Resilience Advisors
Managing DirectorDr. Oliver Heiland
Oliver Heiland is the founder of Capital for Resilience Advisors (CFRA).
He brings over 20 years of senior leadership experience across the financial sector, with direct responsibility for strategy, platform design, transformation and governance at scale.
At Allianz Global Investors, he advised on the build-out and scaling of one of the first global private markets platforms reaching USD 85bn AUM — working across private credit, infrastructure debt, SME financing, corporate loans, trade finance, infrastructure equity and real assets, including complex blended-finance structures involving multilateral and development finance institutions.
At Deka, he advised on the formation of one of the first institutional multi-access private credit platforms (EUR 2 bn investment volume) for a German occupational pension investor.
Prior to CFRA, Oliver served as CSSF-regulated managing director of a regulated asset manager with USD 4bn. AUM. Oliver led the strategic transformation of Finance in Motion in creating Luxembourg as main license domicile, the onboarding of new service providers and build-out of coverage teams for portfolio- and risk management, including hiring and up-skilling conducting officers. He also served as Chief Investor Solutions Officer and member of the executive team with responsibility for business development, product & business solutions and partnerships.
His analytical grounding combines legal training at Allen & Overy with more than 15 years as a faculty member of the Institute for Law & Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt, where he brings in the practitioner's perspective on investment strategy, institutional governance, and regulatory frameworks — applied consistently in service of decision quality.
His advisory work is independent, non-executive and outcome-driven, focused on institutional robustness and long-term partnerships.