DealStreetAsia’s ninth edition of the Asia PE-VC Summit, which concluded in Singapore in Sept 2024, featured an unmatched collective of 120+ speakers from global and Asian private equity, venture capital, impact investment firms, limited partners, and startups.
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As part of our summit coverage, we bring you seven sessions from the LP-focused summit track, held on day one of the Asia PE-VC Summit in Singapore in September. The track deep-dived into trends related to allocations, geographical bias, portfolio rebalancing, LP-GP dynamics, risk-returns strategies, co-investments, and direct strategies.
The track featured speakers from fund-of-funds, family offices, corporate LPs, and more. At DealStreetAsia, we have been extensively editorially tracking the LP and asset allocator ecosystem, and our summit themes have been distilled from our coverage.
These sessions provide thought leadership content and nuanced perspectives from asset allocators bullish on Asia.
Here are the stories and videos from the seven tracks under the Limited Partners Summit:
The LP View: Geographies and strategies that will matter in 2025 and beyond
Asset allocators are bullish on Asia and expect to increase their commitments to the region, buoyed by its economic tailwinds and the demographic shifts that are expected to shape strong private equity returns.
Asian family offices recalibrating investment strategies amid global headwinds
To build long-lasting wealth for many generations to follow, family offices should be approaching investments with an “institutional” mindset, experts said.
LP View: Can emerging managers beat the first-time fund blues?
One area where SE Asian emerging managers are finding success is in sector specialisation. Sector funds, often with smaller fund sizes, can be more agile and responsive to market shifts.
Secondaries: Will this be the decade of capitalisation?
Long transaction timelines and the lack of experienced advisors facilitating deals are major hurdles preventing the success of the secondaries process.
Fireside chat: How China’s state capital is redefining the PE-VC ecosystem
Even as RMB-denominated government capital has emerged as a dominant force in China’s PE-VC ecosystem, there is still “room for USD fund managers to grow”, opined Xu Qing, managing partner, Oriza FOFs
Will the India story stay compelling for asset allocators?
The correction in valuations in the Indian startup ecosystem in the past two years was much needed as too much capital was pumped in a rush into the economy in 2021 when the world was crawling out of the COVID-19 crisis.
Closing Session – Global investor perspectives on China: The truth about its investability
Institutional investors are taking a bottom-up approach, which still leaves space for capital allocation opportunities in China, despite the risk that may be involved.
