Asia

The chief investment officer at the South Korean pension says the covid-19 outbreak is making it hard to execute a planned alternatives ramp-up.

The two organisations will coordinate on a variety of capital markets financing activities across Asian leveraged finance markets following the deal.

The vehicle has held a first close on $200m and is now in the deployment phase.

Moves by two Canadian pensions have helped pique interest, but India’s bankruptcy code still has its critics. Adalla Kim reports

Large-cap investors saw lower returns on capital over a 10-year period. But for direct lenders, this has not necessarily been the case.

China’s real estate markets are betraying liquidity concerns as sales volumes decrease and operations are delayed.

The bonds’ performance is linked to the number of confirmed cases and deaths from the coronavirus outbreak.

A glance at the data indicates good growth prospects for private debt in the region. Yet, according to market players, much remains to be done. Adalla Kim reports

Tens of thousands of SMEs already required emergency relief, and the government has announced a 12-fold increase in the budget.

For the seventh year, we recognise the managers, institutional investors and advisory firms considered by their peers to have been the standard bearers of the private debt asset class.