Quick Read – Goldman Sachs (GS) is targeting $750 billion in alternative assets by 2030, building from $429 billion today through annual fundraising of between $75 billion and $100 billion. – Goldman’s Q1 2026 net income rose 19% year over year as advisory revenue surged 89% and…
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Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is chasing a private markets opportunity measured in the trillions, and the firm has put a hard number on how much of it it wants to own – $750 billion in alternative assets under supervision by 2030. That target sits inside a private credit landscape CEO David Solomon sized on the Q1 2026 call at roughly $3.5 trillion in total assets, with $1.6 trillion to $1.7 trillion in direct lending alone, and adjacent to a private equity pool of roughly $4 trillion in enterprise value of sponsor-owned companies waiting for exits. Goldman’s own alternatives book stands at $429 billion today.
The gap between where the firm is and where it wants to be is the story (roughly $2 trillion in private markets). What It Means The $750 billion target rests on a concrete annual fundraising target of $75 billion to $100 billion, and the run rate is already there. Goldman raised $26 billion in gross third-party alternatives in Q1 2026, of which $10 billion went into private credit strategies.