Fund managers

PDI Awards 2025: Deadline for entries extended

Entrants now have until 21 November to submit their entries for the PDI Awards 2025.

Pantheon sets up private wealth team in Asia

The British GP has relocated a senior executive to lead the Singapore desk and added two staff to support him amid asset managers’ growing focus on targeting wealthy clients.

Vistara Growth holds $321m final close for growth-stage lending fund

The provider of growth debt and equity capital will target mostly B2B software firms with $10m-$100m in revenue.

PDI Awards 2025: Last week to submit your entries!

Entries for the PDI Awards close on 14 November.

The rise and rise of take-privates

Short-term and increasingly passive public markets aren’t always the right fit for major transformations, particularly those being driven by trends such as decarbonisation and AI.

Modelling public-private exposure

Do customisable models incorporating both public and private markets exposure represent the next step in the democratisation of alternatives?

Restoring the balance between public and private markets

Companies are staying private for longer, but our economies need fully functioning and vibrant public markets as well.

Public markets: After years of private market growth, public markets may gain ground

Thanks to the evolution of a robust private market ecosystem that includes private credit, secondaries and unprecedented amounts of capital, companies are growing bigger and staying private for longer than ever before. Nevertheless, the dream to go public is still very much alive.

Ares CEO says it avoids trade finance, seeks to reassure on credit cycle

Michael Arougheti, Ares’ CEO, views subprime lender collapses as ‘idiosyncratic and isolated’, not signifying a turn in the credit cycle.

Australian regulator flags further surveillance of private funds market

ASIC says it needs ‘greater visibility’ to support market integrity and help maintain confidence, and will carry out ‘targeted surveillance’ in the next 18 months.