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Deal focus: Secondary investors support Capital Square, Basil merger

Capital Square Partners and Basil Technology Partners have joined forces, with HarbourVest Partners, NewQuest Capital Partners, and Committed Advisors backing a USD 700m fund comprising Asia IT services investments from both GPs

  • South Asia
  • 19 January 2023
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India's Lighthouse seeks $425m for Fund IV, gets NIIF commitment

Lighthouse Funds is targeting INR 35bn (USD 425m) for its fourth India fund and has signed up the country’s National Investment & Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) as an anchor LP.

  • Fundraising
  • 18 January 2023
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LPs want more transparency in Asia GP relationships

LPs are willing to back first-time managers and reengage with China, but they want to see more from GPs in return for taking these risks, the Hong Kong Venture Capital & Private Equity Association’s (HKVCA) Asia Forum heard.

  • Greater China
  • 16 January 2023
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China's CIC becomes largest state-owned investor - report

China Investment Corporation (CIC) surpassed Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) and Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) to become the world’s largest state-owned investor in 2022, according to Global SWF Tracker.

  • LPs
  • 10 January 2023
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2023 preview: Fundraising

Fundraising is difficult for all but the fortunate few private equity managers in Asia. GPs are delaying launches, shaking up strategies, and offering sweeteners; LPs are in no hurry to make commitments

  • Fundraising
  • 14 December 2022
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Q&A: CICC Capital’s Mengyang Yang

Mengyang Yang, an executive director and head of private equity in Hong Kong at CICC Capital, on China’s post-pandemic revival, plans for a flagship US dollar fund, and managing guidance funds

  • Greater China
  • 14 December 2022
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2023 preview: Mass access to PE

More individuals will be able to invest in private equity as fund fractionalisation technology matures. But a global downturn, ever-malleable regulations, and blockchain gloom loom large

  • Fundraising
  • 14 December 2022
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To pastures new: Asia PE people moves

A selection of the transfers, promotions, arrivals, and departures in the private equity community in 2022

  • GPs
  • 14 December 2022
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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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Overallocation-driven secondary sales more talk than action – Coller

More LPs are considering sales of private equity positions via the secondary market as they find themselves overallocated to the asset class following sharp adjustments in public markets valuations, but Coller Capital has yet to see this translate into...

  • Secondaries
  • 14 December 2022
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Raffles Family Office appoints digital assets CIO

Raffles Family Office, a Hong Kong-based multi-family office, has named Zann Kwan as CIO and managing partner of its digital assets unit.

  • Greater China
  • 12 December 2022
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LP appetite for Asia weakens - survey

Institutional investor interest in Asia has fallen significantly over the past two years, according to a survey conducted by Probitas Partners, with pan-regional funds, venture capital, and single country-focused funds among the least popular strategies...

  • LPs
  • 08 December 2022
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Northleaf launches Tokyo office, targets Asian LPs

Northleaf Capital Partners, a Canada-based asset manager that invests in private equity, private credit, and infrastructure, has opened a Tokyo office to spearhead fundraising activity in Asia and is considering the addition of a Korea presence.

  • GPs
  • 07 December 2022
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Asia secondaries: Layers and structures

With private market valuations yet to see a meaningful reset in Asia and heightened risk factors in China, investors are exploring ways to drive secondary deal flow by closing the bid-ask spread

  • Secondaries
  • 06 December 2022
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Superfunds top-up Series B for Australia's Morse Micro

Five Australian superannuation funds have backed a AUD 30m (USD 20.4m) investment in local Wi-Fi chipmaker Morse Micro, extending a recent Series B round to AUD 170m.

  • Australasia
  • 01 December 2022
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Asian family offices seek greater PE funds exposure - survey

More than half of family offices in Asia Pacific plan to increase their exposure to private equity funds next year, according to a survey conducted by Raffles Family Office and Campden Wealth.

  • LPs
  • 01 December 2022
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Q&A: Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Patrick Reid

Patrick Reid, a UK-based managing director for alternatives distribution management at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, plots the future of themes around secondaries, longer holds, and hybrid approaches to PE

  • Secondaries
  • 30 November 2022
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India's Multiples targets up to $1b for Fund IV

Multiples Alternate Asset Management is looking to raise up to USD 1bn for its fourth India-focused fund, with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) proposing a USD 60m commitment.

  • South Asia
  • 24 November 2022
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ESG: The case for convergence

With ISSB pursuing pre-eminence in sustainability-related financial disclosures and TCFD emerging as a preferred climate framework, investors and investees will have to get more serious about reporting

  • Australasia
  • 22 November 2022
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Tread more cautiously in PE-infra overlap – AVCJ Forum

Investors are increasingly challenged to reconcile a vanishing divide between some infrastructure and PE strategies, the AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum heard.

  • Infrastructure
  • 18 November 2022
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Investors see 2022 as a 'turning point' in GP-LP relations - AVCJ Forum

The private equity industry has undergone a profound shift as under-allocations have become over-allocations, fundraising and deployment have slowed, and the dynamic between GP and LPs has changed, the AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum heard.

  • LPs
  • 18 November 2022
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Team diversity impacts fundraising prospects - AVCJ Forum

Asia-based managers are slower to implement diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies than their peers in other markets, but LPs told the AVCJ Diversity & Inclusion Forum that action on this issue is increasingly important to fundraising.

  • Central Asia
  • 15 November 2022
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LPs’ ESG checklists get ever more intricate – AVCJ Forum

LPs want more nuanced emissions measurement from their portfolio managers, the AVCJ ESG Forum heard.

  • LPs
  • 15 November 2022
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Q&A: Northwestern University’s Tianhao Wu

Tianhao Wu, a managing director in the investment team at Northwestern University’s endowment, on adding new GP relationships, addressing China risk, and pursuing geographic diversification in Asia

  • North America
  • 09 November 2022
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