Carmela Mendoza
Carmela Mendoza is a senior reporter for Private Equity International based in London. She first joined PEI in Hong Kong in 2015 and covered Asia. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, she previously worked for a digital agency in Singapore focused on government websites and publications covering business, trade and industry, transport, and social development.
As the pension discusses the final plan for its revamped PE programme, we look at how it can hit its target annual deployment range, including through secondaries opportunities.
Half of idi Emerging Markets Partners' latest fund will be dedicated to primaries and secondaries.
The $9bn pension wants to invest in funds that provide more adequate liquidity protections in the event of an emergency, according to CIO Jang Dong-hun (pictured).
Secondaries in the region is 'alive and well', according to executives at the UK's largest asset manager.
Franklin Templeton Private Equity is now looking for professionals with multi-manager, co-investment, secondaries and directs experience.
Managing director Alexander Apponyi will be active across the fund placement and secondaries advisory functions.
SCPE has continued to invest amid its sales process, most recently in an Indian B2B travel distribution company.
The firm will earmark up to 20% of the fund for secondaries and co-investments.
Norbert Fernandes, who spent four years at the Singaporean state investment firm, will head up the direct secondaries specialist's third outpost in the region.
Swiss investment firm LGT Capital Partners, which has 25% of its $60bn AUM in secondaries, sees the market as a hedge against high pricing.