Investment Allocations

The Berlin fintech last month snapped up Winson Ng, former head of UBS Wealth Management’s PE team, and Sweta Chattopadhyay, former head of PE at bfinance.

Businesses that should seek new ownership aren’t being listed for sale during coronavirus, Tim Sims, founder of Pacific Equity Partners, tells delegates at PEI’s Value Creation Forum: Asia.

Some board members have voiced concerns about the pace at which the $20bn pension is implementing plans to branch out into secondaries and co-investments.

But investors express concern over shifting terms, with a significant minority worried about the extent to which GPs are using credit lines.

The International Finance Corporation is seeking out smaller markets in Latin America, says senior investment officer Jennifer McLeod Petrini.

Aware Super’s senior portfolio manager, Jenny Newmarch, explains how the Australian super fund is engaging with managers on climate change.

Some Indian business owners have become more receptive to private equity capital during the pandemic, Neeraj Bharadwaj, a Mumbai-based MD at Carlyle, told PEI.

EMPEA is looking to get deeper into Asia, say its chief executive Cate Ambrose, and Julie Ruvolo, managing director of venture capital.

Pandemic travel bans have reduced competition for the country’s domestic firms after a period of intense spending by regional and global players.

Corporate pensions, family offices and high-net-worth investors are increasingly making up a bigger share of capital commitments.