PE must define itself to take advantage of Asia buyout opportunities - AVCJ Forum
Asia continues to offer buyout opportunities, but funds looking to take advantage of them must define their benefits to company leaders, industry leaders told the AVCJ Singapore Forum.
"A lot of what I suspect all of us do is education, because this is not right now a widely understood asset class," said Kabir Mathur, a director at KKR. "People don't always fully understand the benefits...
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