Fort Washington Capital Partners Group
Adopts SUBSCRIBE Alternative Investment Platform
CINCINNATI – July 24, 2025 – Fort Washington Capital Partners Group (FW Capital), a division of Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. (Fort Washington), has adopted the SUBSCRIBE alternative investments platform to digitize investor onboarding and fund subscriptions for their limited partner investors. The move will also aim to broaden registered investment advisor (RIA) access to its private equity offerings and simplify the investment process. Fort Washington affiliate Touchstone Securities is the exclusive distributor for FW Capital funds to wealth managers. Both Fort Washington and Touchstone are member companies of Western & Southern Financial Group.
“Our partnership with SUBSCRIBE will deliver a modern, streamlined digital experience for investor onboarding, electronic subscription documents and integrated order workflows. The platform significantly simplifies the investment process enabling investors to access our private equity fund offerings with just a few clicks, replacing the traditionally cumbersome paperwork.”Co-Head of Private Equity
“We are delighted to have FW Capital join the SUBSCRIBE platform. Wealth managers are increasingly turning to alternatives to diversify their portfolios, and we are pleased to support FW Capital’s move into this important channel. FW Capital and the Touchstone sales team share our commitment to deliver a superior experience for financial advisors and their customers that are adopting alternatives. We are proud to support their strategic goals.”SUBSCRIBE Founder and CEO
About Fort Washington Capital Partners Group
Fort Washington Capital Partners Group (FW Capital), based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the institutional private equity division of Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. (Fort Washington). Fort Washington is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company (Western & Southern Life) and is a member of Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern). Established in 1888, Western & Southern Life has been investing in private equity since 1984. For more information about FW Capital, visit fwcapital.com.
Today, FW Capital manages diversified funds of funds, secondary funds and customized programs, and provides discretionary advisory services to Western & Southern. As of June 30, 2025, these mandates comprised $5.5 billion in private equity commitments.
About Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.
Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. (Fort Washington), founded in May 1990, is the money management and primary investment arm of Western & Southern Financial Group, with $90.5 billion in assets as of June 30, 2025.* Fort Washington is a registered investment advisor with expertise in fixed income, public equity and private equity. Clients include institutions and high-net-worth individuals throughout the country and abroad. For more information, visit FortWashington.com.
* Includes assets under management by Fort Washington of $85.0 billion, and $5.5 billion in commitments managed by Fort Washington Capital Partners Group (FW Capital), a division of Fort Washington.
About Touchstone Securities
Touchstone Advisors, Inc. offers Distinctively Active™ mutual funds and ETFs through a sub-advised model that provides access to institutional-caliber managers. With a focus on high-conviction, purpose-driven strategies, Touchstone is committed to delivering long-term results and empowering financial professionals with tools and insights to grow portfolios and practices. Touchstone Advisors is a member of Western & Southern Financial Group and an affiliate of Touchstone Securities, Inc. which is a licensed broker-dealer, and distributor of Touchstone funds and FW Capital private equity funds. For more information, visit Touchstonefunds.com.
About Western & Southern Financial Group
Founded in Cincinnati in 1888 as The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, Western & Southern Financial Group, Inc., a Fortune 500® company at No. 310, is the parent company of a group of diversified financial services businesses. Its assets owned ($84.8 billion) and managed ($42.1 billion) totaled $126.9 billion as of June 30, 2025.1 Western & Southern is one of the strongest life insurance groups in the world. Its seven life insurance subsidiaries (The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, Western-Southern Life Assurance Company, Columbus Life Insurance Company, Gerber Life Insurance Company,2 Integrity Life Insurance Company, The Lafayette Life Insurance Company, and National Integrity Life Insurance Company) maintain very strong financial ratings. Other member companies include Eagle Realty Group, LLC; Fabric by Gerber Life; Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.;3 Gerber Life Agency;4 IFS Financial Services, Inc.; Touchstone Advisors, Inc.;3 Touchstone Securities, Inc.;5 W&S Brokerage Services, Inc.;3,5 and W&S Financial Group Distributors, Inc.6 Western & Southern is a title sponsor of several major Cincinnati events every year. From 2002 to 2023, it served as the title sponsor of the nation’s longest-running professional tennis tournament played in its city of origin, the Western & Southern Open. The renamed Cincinnati Open is one of nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, the world’s premier tournaments after the Grand Slams, and a WTA 1000 tournament. The company proudly continues to serve as a major sponsor.
1 The financial information presented here is preliminary and unaudited.
2 Gerber Life is a registered trademark. Used under license from Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. and Gerber Products Company.
3 A registered investment advisor.
4 In the State of California, Gerber Life Agency, LLC is known as and does business as Gerber Life Insurance Agency, LLC.
5 A registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC.
6 W&S Financial Group Distributors, Inc. (doing business as W&S Financial Insurance Services in CA). Review our current financial ratings.
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About SUBSCRIBE
SUBSCRIBE is a fintech company digitally transforming the landscape of alternative investments for fund managers, institutional investors, wealth managers, law firms, and fund administrators. Our platform technology modernizes the archaic infrastructure of private fund investments by delivering a central operating system — catering to every role within the investment process empowering them to connect any fund, any investor, anywhere in the world on a single platform. SUBSCRIBE supports over $6 trillion in private market assets and is the trusted technology partner to thousands of firms that rely on our end-to-end enterprise solution to scale their private market investment programs and manage investment processes across pre-trade, trade, and post-trade fund workflows. For additional information, visit www.subscribeplatform.com or follow the company on LinkedIn.
Media Contacts
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Fort Washington Investment Advisors
513-629-1511
diane.planck@westernsouthern.com
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SUBSCRIBE is a fintech company digitally transforming the landscape of alternative investments for fund managers, institutional investors, wealth managers, law firms, and fund administrators. Our platform technology modernizes the archaic infrastructure of private fund investments by delivering a central operating system — catering to every role within the investment process empowering them to connect any fund, any investor, anywhere in the world on a single platform.
