Private equity

‘The best risk-return wins’: Partners Group eyes Asia private wealth growth amid private credit jitters

The firm, which has ramped up its Asia team, will engage more distribution partners and launch new products to woo investors

Luke Flemmer, head of private assets at MSCI, says benchmarking is "really critical" to the private assets market's maturation.

Benchmarks necessary as private market assets seek retail participation: MSCI private assets chief

Financial advisers must be equipped to ensure products added to clients’ portfolios are suitable for diversification and liquidity

The resurgence of interest in the Hong Kong stock market – about US$35 billion of listings in 2025 – has helped some private capital groups including Sweden’s EQT, Warburg Pincus and Carlyle exit some smaller companies they took venture capital-style stakes in, rather than buyout investments.

World’s biggest private equity houses struggle to exit China deals

The challenge comes as higher interest rates depress valuations and firms face a more mature, competitive industry

The problematic Just Energy Transition Partnership’s financing packages are far short of what is needed, researchers say.
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Projesh Banerjea, managing director and part of the Apac infrastructure team at KKR, says digital infrastructure has singular capital needs, "both in terms of building assets and recycling of assets through buying stabilised assets".

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Deep pools of private capital are chasing data centres, one of Asia’s most capital-intensive asset classes

There were four deals valued at more than US$1 billion each in South-east Asia last year, down from eight in 2024.

South-east Asia private equity deal value down 43% in 2025: EY

Deal volume drops 12% year on year, with 59 transactions

Nearly nine in 10 private wealth professionals plan to increase allocations to private markets this year, a survey has found.

More investment opportunities in private markets from banks in Singapore as demand soars

Some have beefed up their offerings to include European private credit, hedge funds and private equity products

“We are diversifying and thinking about Asia, especially through the PE lens,” Schroder says.

AustralianSuper hunts for private equity deals across Asia

The pension fund currently has 5.1% of its balanced portfolio invested in private equity

Apac also has showed the highest enthusiasm for the illiquidity premium of private market assets at 58%

Apac investors most bullish globally on private markets, with nearly half planning to raise allocations

Long-term return expectations and confidence in the illiquidity premium are driving sustained interest

Private real estate fundraising surged in 2025, fuelled by strong activity among industry heavyweights and the rise of data centre-focused funds.

Private property fundraising up 29% yoy to US$222.2 billion in 2025 after three-year slump: report

In the Asia-Pacific, some US$21.3 billion of capital was raised in 2025