Alex Lynn
Alex Lynn is an 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.
The country’s largest public pension will pursue both private equity and private credit continuation fund opportunities, according to investment policy committee member Sam Y Chung.
A court of appeals decision in the US this week to render null and void the SEC’s private fund rule doesn’t signal the end of efforts to better protect investors.
The firm is seeing two- to three-times more secondaries deal flow than it had for the previous programme, Asia chairman Kevin Lu said at the Milken Institute Global Investor’s Symposium on Tuesday.
Moonfare already has strong ties to the secondaries market, having partnered with Lexington in 2021 to help users sell their fund stakes.
The firm has appointed Michael Hu, a former managing director at Ardian, to lead its regional investment and business development activities from its new office in Singapore.
Cathay Life and some of its fellow Taiwanese insurers have been pulling back from private markets due to current and impending regulatory capital requirements.
China funds are trading at a 50% discount to NAV even after a decline in private markets valuations, according to managing director Kent Chen.
The firm this week opened an office in Singapore, its sixth in the Asia-Pacific region and 27th globally.
Crescent Capital Partners is moving an Australian healthcare recruitment business into a separate vehicle.
A mismatch between the supply of potential deals and the number of institutional buyers has given Schroders significant 'bargaining power', says Jun Qian, the firm's head of China PE.