Private capital

TAKING HEART

Cross-sector collaboration needed to tackle social impact: panel

Crises present opportunities for philanthropy to step up and fill the gaps, panellists add

Chee Jiun Wen previously held senior roles at companies including Julius Baer, advising sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations and private clients across Asia.

Franklin Templeton appoints former BOS managing director to new Apac private markets wealth role

Chee Jiun Wen will be based in Singapore and will focus on expanding the company’s private markets franchise across the region

Modern defence is less about troop numbers than about control of advanced technologies such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and clean energy.

Bigger defence budgets are not enough to secure Europe

The continent cannot rearm without mobilising private capital for military R&D

The fund is set to start in the second half and follows similar ones introduced by KKR and Capital Group last year in the US, Capital Group CEO Mike Gitlin said.

KKR, Capital Group to start public-private credit fund in Asia

The partnership comes as rival firms also ramp up their own public-private offerings

The company's co-chief executive officers Doug Ostrover and Marc Lipschultz had previously pledged more than half of their Blue Owl stakes to secure loans from financial institutions.

Blue Owl co-CEOs’ personal loans no longer backed by firm shares

[LOS ANGELES] Blue Owl Capital co-chief executive officers Doug Ostrover and Marc Lipschultz have revised the terms of personal loans to remove the company’s shares as collateral, after turmoil in the...

Industry titans like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic continue to command massive valuations in funding rounds.

Wealthy Asians chasing returns pour US$25 billion into AI startups

For Asia’s elite, the allure of generational tech gains is outweighing the risks of a potential bubble

Private wealth portfolios should have an allocation to infrastructure, says Lennart Blecher, chairperson of EQT Real Assets.

Stronger governance and an ‘industrial’ approach drive EQT’s outperformance

The trick is to identify good companies that can be made great by attracting the best people, says chair of EQT Real Assets

Philip Pearce, ESR Group president, notes that Singapore was always a more significant office and base than Hong Kong.

Privatisation reset puts ‘simplified’ ESR on growth path from Singapore

It has pulled US$700 million in foreign capital to Singapore over the last two years, and aims to double core AUM to more than US$80 billion by 2030

Janet Perumal notes that while there is always going to be a place for passive management, diversification is also important.

Asia investors shift from money market funds to active funds, alternatives: Wellington Management head of Apac

Fixed income and 140/40 extension strategies have also drawn interest in the past 12 months, says Janet Perumal

The new fund is in addition to Singtel Innov8’s existing US$250 million evergreen fund.

Singtel unit launches US$250 million global AI growth fund

The Singtel Innov8 fund will back high-growth AI startups