Alex Lynn
Alex Lynn is a multi-award-winning journalist and Hong Kong Bureau Chief at PEI Group, leading coverage of Asia-Pacific private markets for Private Equity International and editing its daily Side Letter briefing. He joined the business in 2017, having previously covered EMEA markets from PEI's London office. Alex has a master's degree in Journalism from Kingston University. He can be reached at alex.l@pei.group.
While some software businesses are poised to become stronger on the back of a wave of AI innovation, there will be others that suffer or become obsolete, says managing director Jeff Keay.
Munich Private Equity Partners' Hans-Christian Moritz draws on the famed psychiatric model to describe an industry coming to terms with a new liquidity reality.
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RGCM Fund I will have the flexibility to invest in both direct secondaries and primary funding rounds.
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Quarterly redemption opportunities do not mean these products should be considered liquid, says head of international Marco Bizzozero.
Lili Wang is evaluating new product strategies across private credit, private equity secondaries and real estate.
The firm joins an increasingly crowded NAV financing market, with Partners Group and Pemberton Asset Management among those to have also entered the fray in recent years.