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GP-led secondaries join direct investments, co-investments and fund commitments to gain differentiated exposure to the asset class, say Jeff Hammer and Paul Sanabria, global co-heads of secondaries at Manulife Investment Management.

As supply outstrips demand, GP-leds can prove compelling for secondaries buyers with the right strategy, say Neuberger Berman’s Tristram Perkins, global co-head of secondaries private equity; Frank Guglielmo, principal; and Victor Ko, principal.

Favourable conditions are spurring the country’s private equity industry into the next stage of development, say NSSK’s Jun Tsusaka and Shohei Akiyama.

Structural changes in Japanese society are driving private equity dealflow among founder-owned businesses and corporate carve-outs, say Atsushi Akaike and Daisuke Takatsuki at CVC Japan.

The fragmented Japanese waste management industry represents a compelling private equity opportunity, say J-STAR principal Masayoshi Nakajima, manager Hisato Iwamoto and managing partner Hideaki Sakurai.

Japanese LPs are looking beyond commingled funds to more customised solutions, including fund of ones and SMAs, say Neuberger Berman’s Ryo Ohira, Jonathan Shofet and Yoshi Yagisawa.

Against an increasingly bifurcated geopolitical backdrop, Japan is uniquely positioned to give investors a stable and safe access platform to Asia’s secular growth story, says Mark Chiba, group chairman and partner at The Longreach Group.

GPs are receiving unprecedented levels of demand for data from LPs, as well as an uptick in reporting requests, say Caroline Baker and Scott Kraemer of Vistra

Overseas PE firms that can overcome the challenges of building business in Japan will be able to capitalise on countless opportunities, says Sakuya Tajima, head of business development in Japan for Sanne Group

Better data strategies will allow investors to make better decisions faster and cheaper, but the industry is still at an early stage of its data transformation journey, says Gus Harris at Alter Domus