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Direct investment: Silent partners?
Direct investment: Silent partners?

Limited partners are attracted by the low costs and potentially high returns of direct investment opportunities in Asia. Those with a finger on the market’s pulse are likely to prevail, provided they don’t get too greedy

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Kelvin Chan leaves Partners Group's Asia PE team

Kelvin Chan has stepped down as a managing director with Partners Group’s Asia Pacific private equity team. The global private markets player, which makes primary, secondary and direct investments, has appointed Kelvin Yu in his place.

KPMG resigns as China Forestry auditor

KPMG has resigned as auditor of China Forestry Holdings, a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group and Partners Group, which became embroiled in an accounting scandal early last year. The accounting firm will not stand for reappointment.

Should private equity investors trust IRR?

Since the early days of private equity, the internal rate of return (IRR) has served as the industry’s prime metric. It is perhaps best known as the gauge which underpins fund managers’ claims that they deliver better returns than the public equity markets....

PE-backed China Forestry expects 1H loss

China Forestry Holdings, which counts The Carlyle Group and Partners Group among its investors, has warned that it is expected to post a loss for the first half of 2011. The Hong Kong-listed company said earlier this year that an investigation into alleged...

Partner Group hires Sony Life's Numata

Mamoru Numata of Sony Life has joined Partners Group’s Tokyo office as a senior manager. His responsibilities will include investment origination, client relationships and business development.

Partners promotes Chan, Baumann

Swiss private equity fund of funds Partners Group has announced its latest round of promotions, and like many of its counterparts in the financial services industry, will be recognizing the contribution of its Asia-based staff.

Partners Group opens in Korea under Cho

Leading global private markets asset manager Partners Group has announced the opening of an office in Seoul, to be led by Alex Cho, Head of Korea and hitherto a Senior VP with the firm's Investment Solutions department.

Partners Group in Asia

At its annual investor roundtable in Hong Kong last week, Partners Group, the Zug-headquartered $25 billion private markets investment management firm, outlined its global strategy and its view of fundamental investment drivers post the GFC.

Marcel Erni of Partners Group

The question of GPs’ long-term experience in Asia is among LPs’ biggest concerns, says Founder and Vice Chairman of Partners Group Marcel Erni, adding that funds are largely still looking to prove that their model can work in “difficult cycles.”

  • LPs
Partners Group loses Cai as head of China

Fund of funds Partners Group has confirmed that Linda Cai has left her position as Head of China, and that she will be replaced by Zhao Peng, with other reports indicating that Cai resigned up to three months ago, with her next move still unknown.

Partners Group finances Newcastle Coal in Australia

Partners Group, the Zug-headquartered Swiss private markets investment management group, has financed the Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group in Australia with an A$27 million ($25 million) subordinated debt facility, to build a new coal export terminal...

The dynamics of secondaries

The coverage of the state of the Asia Pacific secondaries market earlier this month in AVCJ naturally leads one to consideration of how secondaries work, and what they can do for investors in the region – whether for local buyers or sellers, or outsiders...