Singapore

Uni Super appoints new board member; HESTA names new CEO; Abu Dhabi Investment Council hires principal; Jardine Matheson appoints investments MD; and more.

Asia's private equity managers face a new reality: allocators want proof of performance, not promises.

While global liquidity is still abundant for AI and fintech infrastructure, the bar for new and existing managers has been raised to an 'incredibly high' level.

Ping An Insurance Group to sell $1 billion software-focused private equity assets; ESR raises $850 million to expand APAC logistics and data centre businesses; Temasek Trust Catalytic Capital for Climate and Health raises $1.2 million in funding round for Singapore healthtech firm; and more.

Institutional investors are pivoting to home-market strategies, tightening scrutiny of manager quality and liquidity structures.

Australian Retirement Trust hikes global equities and international bond holdings; Hong Kong and Malaysia bourses launch co-branded large-cap index; Japan’s government fund Cool Japan supports Malaysian insurtech PolicyStreet's Series C funding round; and more.

A decade of excess capital deployed into Asia’s private markets has forced a fundamental repricing of risk and is now defining which managers survive the correction.

South Korea's NPS set to increase strategic forex hedging ratio over the long term to support struggling won; Malaysian KWAP puts $47m in cooling firm through climate initiative; AustralianSuper to increase members' insurance premiums by 40%; and more.

As competition weakens protections in the West, Asian private credit is emerging as a structural outlier.

First Super appoints acting CEO; QBE Re appoints head of SoutheastAsia; Aware Super hires AustralianSuper director; and more.

Philippines' GSIS partners with JIC to improve valuations and risk assessments; Aware Super and TelstraSuper set to merge in next two months; NPS signs MOU with Allianz Global Investors; and more.