East Asia

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.

Pak-Seng Lai, former head of APAC private wealth at Blue Owl Capital and head of private markets APAC at UBS, joined Coller's Hong Kong office in October.

Head of Australia and New Zealand Joel Thickins will jointly lead the Asia business alongside existing head Ganen Sarvananthan.

Japanese institutions contributed 54% of the newly closed Fund IV – the largest proportion of any Longreach fund to date, partner Mark Chiba tells PEI.

A look beneath the hood of Korea's largest private equity portfolio. Plus: GPs are revisiting bridge funds; and sovereign investors are fretting over geopolitics. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

Asia-Pacific's lack of a risk premium does not mean it has underperformed, according to Hamilton Lane co-chief executive Juan Delgado-Moreira and co-head of Asia investments Collwyn Tan.

GPs are placing less emphasis on succession at a time when LPs are increasingly concerned about the issue. Plus: LPs are bearing the brunt of rising compliance costs; and some Chinese GPs are having to re-learn their craft. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

HarbourVest now quizzes GPs about their views on NAV financing as part of its due diligence, managing director Lydia Hao tells PEI.

Session Private Equity was launched in July by Hiroaki Wakashita, a former Tokyo-based partner at Orchestra Private Equity and 15-year veteran of The Riverside Company.