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Portfolio Advisors promotes Asia fundraiser

Portfolio Advisors has promoted Chris Choi, who is responsible for business development and client services in Asia, from senior vice president to managing director.

  • LPs
  • 12 January 2021
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Zeitgeist: 2020 in quotes

What industry participants had to say on China IPOs, conducting due diligence on GPs, waiting for distress opportunities, working from home, co-underwriting deals, and sensible recruitment policies

  • Greater China
  • 04 January 2021
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Musical chairs: Asia PE people moves

A selection of the transfers, promotions, arrivals and departures in the private equity community in 2020

  • GPs
  • 31 December 2020
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Q&A: Hamilton Lane's Collwyn Tan

Collwyn Tan, Hamilton Lane’s co-head of Asia investment and key point person for everything transactional in the region, unpacks the mixed signals of 2020

  • Greater China
  • 16 December 2020
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Investor relations: Talk isn't cheap

The enforced adoption of virtual communications points to longer-term changes in investor relations, from annual general meetings to informal catch-ups. GPs must find ways to stand out

  • Fundraising
  • 15 December 2020
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LPs anticipate PE portfolio restructuring - survey

A wave of portfolio restructuring is likely as LPs turn to the secondary market to reshape their private equity exposure, source new credit facilities or dispose of assets to remedy liquidity shortfalls, and review co-investment policies, Coller Capital’s...

  • Secondaries
  • 08 December 2020
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Future Fund names new CIO, hires PE executive from Navis

Australia’s Future Fund has appointed Sue Brake as its new CIO and brought in Kelvin Mak, formerly of Navis Capital Partners, as a director in the private equity team.

  • Australasia
  • 04 December 2020
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Ex-Capital Dynamics executive gets Japan fund-of-funds mandate

Kazushige Kobayashi, formerly of Capital Dynamics, has won a fund-of-funds mandate from the Tokyo government to be managed by a dedicated team set up under Asian alternatives group MCP Asset Management.

  • Fund-of-funds
  • 03 December 2020
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LP interview: Rockefeller University

Rockefeller University has aggressively expanded its endowment program by ramping up its appetite for risk. Asian venture capital is playing a key role in this agenda

  • North America
  • 03 December 2020
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Asian fund-of-funds: Local linchpins

The Asian fund-of-funds community has shrunk considerably over the last 10 years as a result of M&A, withdrawals and repositioning. How do the survivors, from Axiom Asia and Asia Alternatives down, deliver value to LPs?

  • Fund-of-funds
  • 02 December 2020
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Axiom closes latest Asia fund-of-funds at $1.8b

Axiom Asia has closed its sixth pan-regional fund-of-funds at the hard cap of $1.8 billion, claiming that the economic fallout from COVID-19 has created more investment opportunities.

  • Fundraising
  • 30 November 2020
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Large LPs willing to explore riskier growth options – AVCJ Forum

Institutional investors looking to diversify their growth portfolios are increasingly turning to technology and emerging managers, the AVCJ Forum heard.

  • LPs
  • 19 November 2020
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Global LPs want more control in China – AVCJ Forum

North American and European LPs see promise in Asia, and China in particular, but remain wary due to a lack of control opportunities, especially in the context of COVID-19.

  • Greater China
  • 18 November 2020
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Asset allocation: So long, silo?

The total portfolio approach remains on the margins of asset management. Advocates of the model hope LPs will reconsider as they look for alpha beyond the areas where they normally find it

  • LPs
  • 18 November 2020
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ESG reporting pressures pile on GPs, LPs – AVCJ Forum

Rising compliance standards and COVID-19 have heightened the need for detailed reporting on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, LPs told the AVCJ ESG Forum.

  • LPs
  • 17 November 2020
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Q&A: British Columbia Investment's Jim Pittman

Jim Pittman, global head of private equity at British Columbia Investment Management, discusses the mechanics of building a co-investment heavy portfolio from Canada’s 12th largest urban center

  • North America
  • 17 November 2020
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Virtual AGMs & IR: Close encounters

The technology is available to facilitate informal discussions at virtual AGMs, but do these solutions present an acceptable substitute for physical interaction, and do GPs and LPs want to use them?

  • Fundraising
  • 17 November 2020
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Virtual AGMs & IR: Up in the air

Private equity firms are still finding their feet with annual meetings that no longer take place on the ground. Like it or not, virtual engagement is set to become a larger part of investor relations from now on

  • Fundraising
  • 16 November 2020
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Manulife backs spinout from Hong Kong’s JIDA

Manulife Investment Management is supporting the spinout of the team at Hong Kong infrastructure investor JIDA Capital, acquiring a significant minority stake in the new GP.

  • Greater China
  • 12 November 2020
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Hamilton Lane opens Singapore office

Hamilton Lane has opened a Singapore office, which will be headed by Xiaying Zhang, the firm’s Hong Kong-based business development lead for Southeast Asia.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 29 October 2020
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TCDRS backs trio of Hillhouse funds

Texas County & District Retirement System (TCDRS) has put $200 million towards Hillhouse Capital’s latest Asia fundraising effort, committing to three separate funds.

  • Greater China
  • 28 October 2020
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LP interview: Hermes GPE

Hermes GPE is leaning into Asia as the region proves relatively successful in deflecting COVID-19. This entails a greater focus on growth capital, country funds, and defensive sector targeting

  • LPs
  • 23 October 2020
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China guidance funds: Money monsters

Government guidance funds are the policy-driven big beasts in China’s renminbi-fundraising landscape. While GPs may have little choice but to engage, they can do so judiciously

  • Greater China
  • 21 October 2020
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Ping An gives third-party investors exposure to PE portfolio

The international investment and asset management arm of China’s Ping An Insurance has raised $875 million through a secondary sale of part of its private equity portfolio.

  • Greater China
  • 20 October 2020
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