Asia-Pacific

Q1 saw 27 CVs close, with nine involving asset classes beyond private equity.

Singapore-based partner Audrey The sees fast growth in the investment advisory firm’s wealthy client base in Asia and a continued rise in new allocations to private credit.

The continuation fund for Blue Matter Consulting is ‘one of those CVs that’s happening for the right reasons’, says Baird partner Michael Holgate.

In this episode of PEI Group’s new podcast miniseries, we analyse the key findings from Secondaries Investor’s inaugural Global Market Survey.

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

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

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.

‘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.

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

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.