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Amy Wang, former head of institutional business for Greater China at Amundi Pioneer Asset Management, has been brought on to strengthen the firm’s relationships with Chinese high net worth individuals and institutional investors.

Chinese regulator CIRC has issued a circular calling for insurers to review the impact private equity investments have on their ‘solvency and overall returns’.

The Japanese company has lined up its second tech-focused deal from its $100bn fund, following an investment earlier this month in satellite operator Intelsat.

Kevin Lu, head of Partners Group’s Singapore office, will now be overseeing the firm’s activities in Mumbai, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, Manila, as well as Singapore.

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West Street Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs’s seventh buyout fund and its first since 2007, is targeting $5bn and has already made two investments.

The Beijing-based firm had initially backed the company’s A$3.5bn funding round last year.

The bulge bracket bank promoted three more for its merchant banking division in the 2016 cycle than it did in the previous cycle two years ago.