Asia-Pacific

Carlyle Group portfolio company Accolade Wines is understood to have had 'limited' impact to its vineyards amid the country's worst wildfires in more than a decade.

Fund performance data show the former is likelier to deliver better returns in the US and Asia, while Europe’s homogenous nature gives pan-regional strategies the edge.

Economic concerns have prompted strategic buyers to become more frugal, paving the way for a greater number of secondary buyouts, according to managing partner Chulmin Lee.

The region’s macro-economic headwinds are unlikely to be solved overnight – a trend that could benefit Asia’s largest funds.

Private Equity International will be back on 2 January.

A year since our look into Inventis, its founder and its claims to be ‘China’s largest private equity firm’, new sources come forward with their experiences.

Private equity fundraising and investment activity has suffered amid concerns over the trade war, China’s debt problem and domestic regulation.

Shirley Ma, who has been tasked with more than doubling the Dutch pension giant's exposure to the region, talks co-investments, GP best-practice and Chinese tech valuations.

As investors continue to see outperformance in the private equity asset class, allocations and commitments are expected to rise accordingly, according to the LP Perspectives Survey.

The Dutch pension giant will make a senior co-investment hire in Hong Kong next year, senior portfolio manager Shirley Ma told PEI.