Aliprantis’s hire is part of a plan by EQT to expand its global private wealth business. : (Bloomberg) -- EQT AB has appointed Peter Aliprantis as head of its Americas private wealth management business, furthering a push across the industry to offer high-net-worth clients access to private market investments. The Stockholm-headquartered investment firm is hiring Aliprantis as a partner in New York, where he’ll report to EQT’s global head of private wealth, Peter Beske Nielsen, according to a statement reviewed by Bloomberg News.