Asia-Pacific

Future 40 Leaders: Which secondaries professionals made the cut?

People from StepStone, LGT Capital Partners, Kirkland & Ellis and more made affiliate title Private Equity International’s latest list of future PE leaders.

Lazard to expand in infra and credit with Campbell Lutyens acquisition

The $575m deal will create a specialised private capital advisory platform, Lazard CL, with Holcombe Green and Gordon Bajnai named as co-CEOs.

Manulife buying infra CVs, secondaries to address low DPI

Rising retail flows offer a new exit route for infra assets, but they also create their own issues, infrastructure fund investment head Kate Roscoe tells Secondaries Investor.

Japanese LPs find credit secondaries a challenging prospect

‘Asymmetry’ of information and lack of look-through are preventing some investors from participating, according to speakers at PEI Group’s Private Debt Investor Tokyo Forum.

Credit secondaries gains traction among Korean LPs

A growing number of LPs in South Korea see secondaries as an opportunity to invest in credit at a low price with downside protection.

Samsung Asset Management eyes credit secondaries, co-investments

Such opportunities ‘can provide us with some downside protection against the macro flows rather than going with the flow as part of the herd’, says head and OCIO Seong Sup Cho.

China’s Ping An Insurance explores circa $1bn portfolio sale

This is at least the sixth time the insurance giant has run a secondaries process.

Japan secondaries shop to close debut fund near hard-cap

RGCM Fund I will have the flexibility to invest in both direct secondaries and primary funding rounds.

TPG seeks to re-establish Japan PE presence, adds secondaries professional

The firm is undertaking multi-asset expansion in the country that includes TPG NewQuest’s first Japan-based secondaries hire.

Evercore APAC secondaries director departs

The investment bank recently hired ex-Adams Street Partners Asia investor relations head Ben Hart to lead its APAC private capital advisory business.