Asia-Pacific

A string of senior placement agent executives in Asia have jumped ship or moved to pastures new during the pandemic.

The alternatives giant has a $130bn multi-year fundraising goal as well as near-term plans to expand its private credit and insurance businesses.

The winners in the healthcare, technology, consumer, energy, long-term private equity, frontier markets and impact firm of the year categories.

Discover who the industry voted the winners in our Awards 2020 coverage. The 71 categories saw hard-fought races in a challenging year.

Awards for the strategy in 12 categories, including Firm, Deal, Law Firm and Advisor across EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

One firm won the Large-Cap, Deal, Fundraise, Australasia, Korea and South-East Asia awards this year and came second in India.

Shanghai-based Ocean Link closed its second USD-denominated private equity fund at $580m in January, co-founder and partner Tony Jiang tells PEI.

The firm plans to seed new strategies in India with its balance sheet before raising additional blind-pool fund products, its new country head Harsh Shethia tells PEI.

Controversial Your Future, Your Super changes will remove an exemption to asset disclosure that has allowed superfunds to avoid revealing the value of some unlisted assets.

PEI caught up with Tony Morgan, head of private equity and corporate debt at CDC Group, to discuss the firm’s expansion into South Asian and African venture capital.