Asia-Pacific

Joy Wang built up Brookfield Oaktree's Hong Kong team, designing a strategy that helped raise over $1.4bn in two years from clients across Greater China, per her LinkedIn profile.

Southeast Asia, once touted as the continent’s next big thing in private equity, is struggling to live up to expectations. What’s holding the region back?

Frank Su, who was also chairperson of the Asia private equity committee and a member of the institution’s global leadership team, left on 31 October.

It is possible to generate competitive returns in emerging markets alongside outsized impact, from social outcomes to the energy transition, say Shami Nissan at Actis and Sumit Barat at portfolio company BluPine Energy

A managing partner at the Riverside Company explains how best to implement employee stock ownership plans. Plus: Hong Kong wants firms to consider listing in the special administrative region; and Ping An has completed another secondaries process to free up liquidity. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

The growth investor will deploy more than 20% of its most recent USD-denominated flagship outside of Mainland China, chief executive Steven Wang told PEI.

The firm expects to have five active evergreen funds within the next 6-12 months.

Affiliate title Private Funds CFO wants to know who should be included in its New Faces of Finance, celebrating the achievements of finance professionals working across the private markets.

The credit advisory unit is seeking to fill a void by offering financing for PE employees who need assistance in meeting co-investment obligations, head of origination Mathieu Rabiller tells PEI.

The local firm has navigated Sri Lanka's political and economic upheaval to complete two exits, with a third underway, managing partner Hiran Embuldeniya tells PEI.