Carmela Mendoza
Carmela Mendoza is a senior reporter for Private Equity International based in London. She first joined PEI in Hong Kong in 2015 and covered Asia. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, she previously worked for a digital agency in Singapore focused on government websites and publications covering business, trade and industry, transport, and social development.
Asian GPs do not plan to increase their spending on digital threats while market regulation and tax regulation are bigger concerns, according to a report by Augentius
Deployment is getting harder for the southeast Asian country's managers as domestic investors become increasingly active in direct investing.
The pension’s head of Asia-Pacific, Suyi Kim, has driven a decade of growth for the fund and she’s just getting started.
The Singapore-headquartered firm expects to raise more than a third of its $300m target by April.
Suyi Kim, managing director and head of Asia-Pacific at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, says the fund has ramped up direct investments in the region by backing the right partners.
Existing investors, mainly Malaysian public pension funds and corporations, have backed the fund.
The Chinese private equity firm expects to raise close to 70% of the target for CPE China Fund III by March.
Last year had a drop in inbound M&A value as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US took a tougher stance on foreign deals.
SoftBank Group’s tech-focused private equity vehicle has backed Ping An Good Doctor and Ping An Healthcare Technology.
With $1.1bn to invest, Japan Post Investment Corporation will look overseas and 'not compete' with domestic GPs, Japan Post Bank’s Tokihiko Shimizu tells PEI.