KKR

KKR-owned Colonial First State, which manages one of Australia’s 10-largest superfunds, will make its inaugural private equity allocation this month, PE head Chloé Brayne tells PEI.

The firm's last regional flagship – the 2021-vintage KKR Asian Fund IV – is the largest pan-Asian buyout fund to date.

With appetite for India rising overseas, PEI profiles some of the market's most prolific global buyers.

The subject has taken priority at recent meetings of trade group Institutional Limited Partners Association, sources tell PEI.

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Mid-market investments, climate strategies and private wealth are all areas that will generate future growth for this year’s top-ranked firm.

The buyout giant, which recorded $116bn of dry powder as of the end of the first quarter, wants to 'invest more when the world is most uncertain', according to co-chief executive Scott Nuttall.

Listed private equity firms are leading the industry’s push into the US retirement space.