Cathay Life Insurance approves $1.2bn in commitments

The Taiwanese insurer has backed two secondaries vehicles.

Institution: Cathay Life Insurance
Headquarters: Taipei, Taiwan
AUM: NT$6.97 trillion

Cathay Life Insurance has committed $600 million each into Blackstone Strategic Partners’ Strategic Partners Fund IX and Lexington Partners’ Lexington Capital Partners X, according to a stock exchange filing.

As illustrated below, the Taiwanese insurer’s recent private equity commitments have been to secondaries and venture capital vehicles across diversified sectors in North America and Western Europe.

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