Despite significant capital inflows into Japan’s private equity market, the pool of institutional-quality fund managers in the country remains limited, creating a gap between available capital and the number of investable, experienced firms, said a senior executive at MCP Asset Management.
“This is a significant issue in Japan. There are many PE funds but if we were to look at more institutional-quality GPs [general partners], there are only a handful,” observed Kazushige Kobayashi, Managing Director at MCP Asset Management, adding that he has been actively investing in emerging managers for 20 years and has consistently worked to increase the number of high-quality GPs.
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