Asia-Pacific – a region disproportionately impacted by private equity’s recent fundraising winter – was the subject of cautious optimism in 2025, with US volatility and growing appetites for India and Japan helping to reinvigorate investor interest. Gregory Barclay, a Singapore-based funds partner at Goodwin, tells PEI that buyers may well be large firms – or, increasingly, investment banks and insurance companies seeking to expand their asset management offering. “Some of the Canadian insurance companies I know are seeking to build up their asset management arms,” he says. “There are examples where they have a great brand on the insurance side in Asia and they have a substantial asset management business that has been more focused historically on Canada, the US and perhaps Europe. They’re leveraging their brand [in Asia] to also get access to capital to invest locally, and I think you will probably see more of that.”
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