Seizing opportunities for PE in emerging Asia

IN South-east Asia's emerging markets, private equity (PE) remains a hot commodity with limited partner (LP) investors.

The combination of attractive macro-level growth, inefficient financial markets and the intangibles of entrepreneurial talent have long fostered dreams of big PE returns across emerging Asia. The fundamental appeal lies in the perceived opportunity to reap profits.

Hence, it comes as no surprise that more than half of LP investors in a 2014 survey by the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association claimed that they will either be freshly allocating or expanding their funds in the South-east Asian region over the next two years.