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Energy transition: Getting comfortable

Private equity investors are leaning into energy transition with new funds, strategies, and attitudes about risk as more emerging categories go mainstream. Regulation remains the perennial spoiler

  • Australasia
  • 08 November 2023
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Asia’s LP landscape: North to south

Pools of institutional – and less institutional – capital in Asia are deepening, but it remains a multi-speed market with some investors just beginning their alternatives journey and others achieving maturity

  • LPs
  • 08 November 2023
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Money train: Raising capital out of Asia

Fundraising difficulties at home are prompting some US and European GPs to target Asian capital pools that they previously overlooked. It requires patience and persistence

  • North America
  • 01 November 2023
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Asia distress: Landslides on hold?

Investors are witnessing an uptick in turnaround opportunities based on delayed pandemic effects and a poor macro outlook. The trend remains anecdotal, but some markets could see a surge

  • Australasia
  • 25 October 2023
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LPACs: Conflicts and complexity

The combination of a maturing Asian private equity landscape and a fast-emerging continuation fund opportunity is placing greater emphasis on the role of the LP advisory committee

  • GPs
  • 18 October 2023
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3Q analysis: Dividing lines

China fundraising stays strong, across US dollar and renminbi, despite regulatory concerns; Australia confounds general slowdown in Asia PE investment; exits demonstrate promise if not results

  • Greater China
  • 18 October 2023
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Emerging LPs: Fingers in every pie

As more institutional investors dip their toes into private equity for the first time, managers must understand their motivations. Frontier sovereign wealth funds are an enticing wildcard

  • Greater China
  • 11 October 2023
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China VC: Amicable divorces

Regulatory pressures are encouraging Chinese VC firms to end longstanding US affiliations, but the impact of impending legislation – even sight unseen – cuts deeper into investor sentiment on China

  • Greater China
  • 04 October 2023
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ESG backlash: Turbulent tailwinds

The strong momentum behind sustainable and responsible investment policies globally has begun to ruffle feathers in the US. Asian private equity should recognise this as a relevant warning

  • North America
  • 27 September 2023
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Family offices: A role for Hong Kong?

Hong Kong’s package of incentives for family offices is intended to redress a balance that has swung in favour of Singapore. Geopolitics is dampening its competitive advantages

  • LPs
  • 20 September 2023
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Cybersecurity: PE urged to go post-quantum

Private equity firms with masses of information, long histories, and long futures will be vulnerable to code-cracking quantum computers perceived as lurking on an inevitable near-term horizon

  • Southeast Asia
  • 20 September 2023
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Portfolio: Gaja Capital and India’s Educational Initiatives

Educational Initiatives was not part of India’s pandemic-driven ed-tech explosion. The PE-owned company emerged from the chaos having reaffirmed its sustainable, school-facing business model

  • South Asia
  • 12 September 2023
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India healthcare: New momentum, new directions

Private equity has become comfortable with niche segments and regional sub-markets in Indian healthcare services. Technology-based business models are next

  • South Asia
  • 12 September 2023
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GP profile: Quona Capital

Financial innovation-focused Quona Capital operates across global developing markets with a compact team and a strict returns-focused impact agenda. Asia dominates the growth narrative

  • South Asia
  • 06 September 2023
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Indonesia VC: Institutional upgrade?

Having won early support from as assortment of local conglomerates, Indonesian venture capital firms must now demonstrate their independence when pitching international LPs

  • Southeast Asia
  • 06 September 2023
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AVCJ China Forum 2023 special issue

  • Greater China
  • 31 August 2023
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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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China secondaries: Willing sellers?

Few, if any, LPs are so desperate to divest China exposure that they will sell fund positions at any price. The main sticking point for secondary transactions is a disconnect on valuations

  • Greater China
  • 29 August 2023
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The innovation game: China GPs play safe

China investors have abandoned their previous high-risk-high-return approach in favour of proven business models and profitability. Hotspots like autonomous driving, biotech, and SaaS are no exception

  • Greater China
  • 23 August 2023
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India edtech: Class dismissed

With investment all but evaporated and its champion in a tailspin of bad press, India’s massive online K-12 education space is in an awkward limbo. It’s a welcome correction though

  • South Asia
  • 02 August 2023
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Asia deal financing: A selective market

Regional buyout activity is weak but leveraged loans are available for the right kind of target – in Japan, Korea, Australia, and beyond – and with a suitably customised structure

  • North Asia
  • 26 July 2023
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GP profile: CCV

Formed through a spinout from KPCB, CCV claims to distinguish itself through a collaborative culture and a disciplined approach to portfolio construction, valuations, and landing scenarios

  • Greater China
  • 19 July 2023
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Creature comforts: Why PE likes pet care

Private equity investors have long championed the resilient characteristics of pet care globally. The pandemic helped solidify a similar value proposition in Asia

  • Australasia
  • 19 July 2023
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2Q analysis: Still scrambling

State-supported deals prop up Asia private equity investment; GPs hustle for liquidity in an unforgiving exit landscape; ex-China mid-market players gain some traction in fundraising

  • Australasia
  • 19 July 2023
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