Carlyle adds credit fundraising head in Asia

The Carlyle Group has hired its first head of Asia investor relations for global credit, a role created to tap the large and growing appetite for private debt investments. Tracy Lau took up the post in Hong Kong last week as the first dedicated fundraiser in the region for credit strategies at the Washington, DC-based $230 billion alternative asset manager. She reports to Nathan Urquhart, New York-based global head of investor relations at Carlyle. Lau previously ran institution…