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Japan's newest LP giant is finding it tough to source experienced talent. Plus: Tokenisation platform ADDX has its sights set on Asia's wealth managers and a UK pension has earmarked billions for the private markets. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

The fund is one of several emerging managers out in the hyper-competitive fundraising market that has become more challenging for newer shops.

Havencrest Capital Management, a Dallas-based healthcare private equity firm, has closed its second fund at a hard cap of $356 million, beating its $300 million target.

Are we on the cusp of seeing a crop of firms built and led solely by operators, with no investment talent?

The Japan Science and Technology Agency's university endowment will initially rely on gatekeepers until it has enough internal resources to invest directly, PE head Yasuyuki Tomita tells PEI.

New fund formation has been made more difficult as limited partners are being kept busy by their existing managers coming back quicker than ever with new, and larger, funds.

I Squared Capital has closed its third global infrastructure fund at a legal cap of $15 billion, beating its $12 billion target.

A US conservative association has claimed that pension funds are better off excluding ESG considerations from their investment decisions. Plus: how Baring Private Equity Asia intends to stay aligned with LPs after its upcoming acquisition by EQT and more evidence of PE's contribution to job creation. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

AXA Hong Kong and Japan will source PE opportunities as an extension of the insurer's current primaries model, which is managed centrally from Germany.