Buyout

Japan is the firm’s second-largest destination for PE deployment, co-chief Joseph Bae told delegates at the HKMA’s 2024 Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit.

The private equity industry continues to face challenges around realisations, according to chief executive Bobby Le Blanc.

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?

Emphasis on DPI is prompting some investors to look at smaller managers; PEI Group data shows how certain US mid-market vintages have performed over the past decade.

The size of the average buyout fund close soared to $1.45bn in Q1-Q3 2024 – the largest ever recorded by PEI.

Private equity AUM is expected to double in the next five years to reach $270bn, co-heads David Sambur and Matt Nord said at Apollo’s 2024 Investor Day.

An expanding investable opportunity set and the rise of institutional investors into impact are fuelling market growth and sophistication, says LGT Capital Partners’ head of impact co-investments, Natalie Sediako

A focus on structural trends and the application of value creation playbooks can drive success in a cyclical market, says Maxim Crewe, partner and head of the consumer and financial services sector teams at Cinven.

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