co-investing

The firm appointed Myron Zhu, former co-head of APAC PE at Aberdeen Standard Investments, in August to build out its third-party capabilities in Asia.

Reinvesting in a company you’re exiting has obvious benefits for a GP, alongside numerous challenges, writes Macfarlanes’ Alex Green.

Co-investments have given the pension plan a greater insight into its GPs, although finding suitable opportunities is ‘threading a narrow needle’, said director of private equity Michael Bailey.

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.

Institutional investors are changing policy and hiring more internal talent to increase their co-investments.

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

Investors should pay attention to how GPs capitalize their own investment in a fund because it raises questions about their real ‘skin in the game’.

The pension system has reviewed opportunities from more than 20 GPs and made more than 54 private equity co-investments.

Delaney Brown, head of private equity funds, outlined the types of deals the pension giant prefers and governance issues it pushes for at the BVCA Summit in London on Thursday.

The $240bn pension’s deputy CIO Scott Chan details how CalSTRS’ ‘collaborative model’ is the blueprint to achieving its goal of being the partner of choice for its managers.