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Report: Primus wins Nan Shan bidThe Hong Kong-based private equity firm reportedly beat a higher bid and will acquire AIG’s Taiwanese unit for $2.2bn.
- Temasek suffers annual losses, aims to reshape portfolio
The sovereign fund, whose portfolio recently recouped some of the value it had lost in the past fiscal year, has not made clear how its private equity investment strategy may shift.
- Limited partners: limited appetite
Fundraising for Asia-focused funds may have stalled, but it has less to do with Asia than it has to with a slowdown in the pace of investments globally, writes Siddharth Poddar.
- KKR wins Korea’s largest ever buyout
If completed, KKR’s $1.8 billion purchase of Oriental Brewery will also be the second largest buyout globally so far this year.
- Report: Bain, Carlyle, MBK and Primus shortlisted for AIG unit
Carlyle and Bain are reportedly in talks with separate local financial services companies to submit joint bids for Nan Shan Life.
- Temasek resumes CEO search
Differences over 'certain strategic issues that could not be resolved’ have caused former BHP Billiton chief Chip Goodyear and the sovereign fund to cancel plans for Goodyear to assume Temasek's CEO role.
- The PEI Asia 30
PEI Asia’s inaugural ranking of the 30 largest private equity firms from the Middle East and the Asia Pacific.
- MBK Partners sets Asian record with $1.5bn Fund II
The Seoul-based firm has closed the largest Asia-focused fund to date this year, but fell short of its reported initial target range of $2.5bn to $3bn.
- Korean pension to up overseas exposure to alternatives
South Korea’s National Pension Service will reportedly resume its overseas investments from next month and increase its investments in overseas alternative assets.
- Report: Korean pension to up overseas exposure to alternatives
South Korea’s National Pension Service will reportedly resume its overseas investments from next month and increase its investments in overseas alternative assets.