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Generative AI in due diligence: Crunching new numbers

Private equity is rediscovering artificial intelligence as a due diligence tool in the wake of ChatGPT. Data security, legal, and technical risks have curbed uptake somewhat, less so for venture

  • Technology
  • 30 August 2023
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Australia's Challenger Funds acquires stake in Proterra Asia

Challenger Funds Management, one of the largest active asset managers in Australia, has acquired a stake in Singapore-based PE firm Proterra Investment Partners Asia from Australia’s Pacific Current Group.

  • Australasia
  • 23 June 2023
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Japan buyouts: Bucking the trend

Japan remains a private equity hotspot despite muted buyout activity elsewhere in Asia. Take-private and sponsor-to-sponsor opportunities make for a more textured local market

  • North Asia
  • 06 June 2023
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Global PE sees fundraising, performance contraction - McKinsey

Global private equity fundraising contracted 15% in 2022 as McKinsey & Company’s latest private markets annual review painted a bleak picture of the asset class, noting that one-year performance entered negative territory for the first time since 2008.

  • North America
  • 23 March 2023
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Southeast Asia VC: Drought survivors

As weaker sentiment for technology risk cools venture capital markets globally, Southeast Asia is lagging in limbo. Investors remain bullish but continue to hold their fire amidst questions around valuations

  • Southeast Asia
  • 22 March 2023
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Malaysia's Khazanah launches start-up programme

Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional has launched a VC collaboration and start-up investment programme with an initial MYR 180m (USD 40m).

  • Southeast Asia
  • 21 March 2023
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Hong Kong: Action on innovation

Efforts to turn Hong Kong into a technology ecosystem are still at an early stage. Investors and start-up founders believe many of the ingredients are there, but the recipe can be flawed or ignored

  • Greater China
  • 08 March 2023
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4Q analysis: Who wants China?

Pan-regional GPs get traction by highlighting their Asia ex-China credentials; buyouts rebound as growth capital – and China – continue to recede; India impresses with bumper exit proceeds

  • Greater China
  • 18 January 2023
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Labour shortages: Tales from north and south

Australia and Japan are facing extreme labour shortages. In the former, GPs can survive on policy support and emergency manoeuvres. In the latter, fundamental strategy shifts are a more immediate imperative

  • Australasia
  • 17 January 2023
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Dalma Capital buys Singapore's Global CIO Office

Dalma Capital Group, a Dubai-headquartered alternative investment management platform, has agreed to buy The Global CIO Office, a Singapore-based outsourced CIO business that primarily serves family offices.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 14 December 2022
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GPs prioritise specialisation, value creation in Asia - AVCJ Forum

Asian private equity has moved on from chasing momentum plays, with GPs increasingly pursuing opportunities where they have domain expertise and know they can add value, the AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum heard.

  • Buyouts
  • 30 November 2022
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Philippines venture builder, Ayala engineer health-tech merger

917Ventures, a corporate venture builder controlled by Philippines-based telecom operator Globe Group, has merged its KonsultaMD telehealth platform with assets held by Ayala Corporation to create a one-stop health super app.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 14 July 2022
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Southeast Asia tech: Resilient with an asterisk

Southeast Asia’s booming tech space no longer lends itself to an easy narrative. As start-up fever cools globally, the region charges forward. Cracks are beginning to show but so are counterintuitive bright spots

  • Southeast Asia
  • 12 July 2022
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Japan VC: Late-stage crossroads

Japan’s late-stage technology start-ups are finally beginning to attract meaningful attention from global investors. They should not pop open the champagne

  • North Asia
  • 31 May 2022
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1Q analysis: Monetising managers

Baring Asia and PAG underline the value of their management entities; exits slump amid uncertainty; BGH Capital, renminbi GPs shore up fundraising; investment fails to extend the late 2021 flourish

  • Greater China
  • 13 April 2022
4Q analysis: Record quarter, record year

China rebounds as Asia private equity investment ends 2021 with a bang; bright spots in improving fundraising environment; sponsor-to-sponsor exits thrive while PE-backed IPOs stumble

  • Investments
  • 18 January 2022
North Asia buyout player MBK sells GP stake to Dyal

North Asia-focused buyout firm MBK Partners has sold a 12% GP stake to Dyal Capital Partners, a unit of US-based alternative investment firm Blue Owl that buys interests in third-party managers.

  • GPs
  • 13 January 2022
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2022 preview: Blockchain

A broader range of investors will play in the blockchain space as new applications are normalized, although regulation remains the wildcard. Developing markets will punch above their weight

  • South Asia
  • 15 December 2021
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2022 preview: Japan VC

Japanese VC is growing up fast and looking a little less homogenous in the process. A longstanding growth-stage gap is about to disappear as new actors file in

  • North Asia
  • 15 December 2021
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2022 preview: Healthcare

Healthcare’s high-cost, rapidly digitizing profile will persist regardless of how COVID-19 plays out in the coming years. China appears set for consolidation, including in biotech

  • Greater China
  • 15 December 2021
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2022 preview: India tech

As India’s technology sector balloons, investors are balancing confidence about fundamentals with expectations of pushback. Both will play out in 2022 to some extent

  • South Asia
  • 15 December 2021
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2021 in review: Boom time

Cheap debt and a desire for assets that deliver technology-driven growth have propelled Asia private equity investment to new highs and supported a resurgence in exits. But fundraising still fails to convince

  • Greater China
  • 15 December 2021
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LP interview: Pictet

Switzerland-headquartered private bank Pictet is adding headcount in Asia – to assess investments as well as woo clients – as the introduction of new strategies increases exposure to the region

  • Europe
  • 08 December 2021
Australia's Five V sells GP stake

Australia-based Five V Capital has sold a 25% GP stake to Pinnacle Investment Management Group, a listed multi-affiliate platform investor that has interests in 14 Australian asset managers.

  • Australasia
  • 24 November 2021
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