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Shin Kong Life's portfolio sale comes just weeks after Cathay Life sold $1.2bn of fund stakes to HarbourVest, as impending regulatory changes prompt insurers to rethink their private markets exposure.

Allianz and Golding are raising impact fund of funds – soon to be joined by Alpha – as the market is boosted by investor demand, climate mega-funds and regulatory momentum.

The Munch-based investment firm has launched its debut impact fund.

Why GP-leds are making waves in the secondaries market. Plus: another senior placement agent has departed in Asia and Golding Capital Partners reaches a hefty AUM milestone. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

The manager expects to begin capital raising for the predecessor fund in the second half of 2021 and is also in market with a co-investment vehicle.

The fund of funds manager invested around €200m in secondaries and co-investments last year, according to a statement obtained exclusively by Private Equity International.

The firm will raise another fund of funds this year which will also back US-based GPs.

In a year in which secondary buyouts have dominated, research from Golding Capital Partners shows ‘fundamental opposition to buying companies from private equity funds is clearly not justified’.

DE&I rhetoric is commonplace in the industry, but there’s still progress to be made when it comes to how gender diversity features in investment decisions, writes Jon Yarker.

Impact investing may have started out with a focus on social issues, but environmental concerns are rising further up investors’ agendas, and influencing their strategies.

Liquidity on the horizon for investors in one of Goldman Sachs' Petershill vehicles. Plus: Firms are teaming up to make larger bets in the UK and how an Asian fund of funds plans to deploy its capital. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

This year's Responsible Investment Special explores the 30 Big Ideas driving innovation in ESG and impact. Plus: Carlyle's fundraising inflows climbed 42 percent last year and Canadian pensions have big plans for PE. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

The fund, which focuses on UK SMEs, has been in the market since January 2016.

To accurately measure a GP’s performance over time, LPs should consider alpha instead of IRR.

New research suggests that opposition to secondary buyouts is ‘clearly not justified'.

The financial giant has agreed to buy Luxembourg-based banking group Sal. Oppenheim for about €1bn in a deal that will include Oppenheim’s private equity fund of funds group.