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Inside AXA IM’s acquisition of W Capital Partners

GPs are facing more significant DPI challenges than ever, despite valuations having returned to a steady state, according to the direct secondaries specialist's founder David Wachter.

3 min read · 22 April 2024

Australia's QIC spies opportunity among Europe's emerging managers

Co-investments play a key role in its decision to partner with first-time funds and emerging managers, partner and head of Europe Rune Jepsen tells PEI.

6 min read · 17 April 2024

Manulife IM leans into Japan despite ‘concerns’ over fund sizes, valuations

Manulife IM has added four APAC GP relationships this year, comprising two in India, one in Australia and another in Japan, senior managing director Liam Coppinger tells PEI.

5 min read · 15 April 2024

Why New York's oldest landlord is betting on 'inefficient spaces' in APAC PE

From Korean VC to Southeast Asia growth funds, Trinity Church Wall Street is seeking managers on an upwards trajectory as it pushes deeper into PE, according to its managing director for investments.

4 min read · 28 March 2024

Alaska Perm’s Waldrop: Focus on DPI could have long-term effects

Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation’s director of private equity Allen Waldrop sat down with PEI’s Madeleine Farman on the sidelines of PEI Group’s NEXUS 2024 summit.

1 min read · 27 March 2024

Montana, Committed Advisors among buyers of latest Taiwanese portfolio sale

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.

2 min read · 27 March 2024

CalSTRS’ Ailman: AI is here to stay

The CIO of the second-largest pension in the US offered his thoughts at NEXUS 2024 on the benefits and harm that generative artificial intelligence could do to investment teams.

3 min read · 25 March 2024

Meet the LP: AlTi Global

Already a prolific owner of alternatives managers via its balance sheet, global wealth manager AlTi will consider transitioning from LP to GP with the launch of a fund in this space.

6 min read · 19 March 2024

Japan’s ORIX Life taps private assets head to lead new US investment arm

Kiyosei Sugioka has been seconded to New York to serve as head of ORIX Life Investments, according to a memo seen by PEI.

2 min read · 13 March 2024

Alignment is critical to LPs accepting continuation vehicles

Panellists at PEI Group’s NEXUS 2024 summit discuss the blurring of the lines between secondaries and co-investments.

3 min read · 11 March 2024

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