Asset Management Awards for Excellence 2024 – Best Fund Provider – Private Equity

Best Fund Provider Private Equity

 

KKR

Best Fund Provider – Private Equity

Alisa Amarosa Wood

partner, private equity

“On behalf of the Private Equity Team at KKR, we are thrilled to be recognised by Asian Private Banker as the Best Fund Provider – Private Equity.

At KKR, we believe private equity should no longer be regarded as an ‘alternative’ used by some but rather a ‘mainstream’ part of today’s asset allocation, in particular against today’s macro environment where we see a compression of returns in public equities and fixed income, along with higher resting rate inflation.

KKR’s approach to private equity is to invest in good businesses and make them great using our value creation tool kit. Our global platform enables us to support companies beyond just providing capital, helping to drive growth and operational best practices, and in turn, making us a partner of choice to the companies we invest in.”

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“KKR in 2023 introduced its flagship private equity fund K-PRIME to Asia’s wealth channel. K-PRIME, which benefits from an open-ended structure, harnesses the unrivalled potential of KKR’s global private equity capabilities, delivering an unparalleled and globally diversified portfolio of investments,” said Carly Lau, senior reporter, Asian Private Banker.

“The fund provides a direct route for wealth investors to access a diversified strategy of high-quality buyout, growth, global impact and core private equity. Previously only available to institutional investors, these investments have a proven track record of delivering both an attractive total return and diversification.

“With its high targeted return, K-PRIME has already captured extensive inflows through private banks’ channels in the less than 10 months since launch. Asian Private Banker’s Asset Management Awards for Excellence judging panel congratulates the KKR private wealth team on its success.”

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Asset Management Awards for Excellence 2019 – Best Fund Provider – Private Equity

Best Fund Provider Private Equity

 

Partners Group

BEST FUND PROVIDER – PRIVATE EQUITY

Victor Jung

senior vice president, client solutions Asia, Partners Group

“Partners Group has been at the forefront of providing tailored private markets investment solutions for private clients for more than two decades. Our globally integrated investment strategy, which draws on the expertise of our more than 1,200 professionals, focuses on investing in quality assets with growth and development potential and then creating value in our investments through active, long-term, and responsible ownership.

We believe our longstanding expertise in providing private markets investment programmes with certain periodic liquidity features, combined with our strong structuring capabilities and global investment platform across private markets asset classes, positions us well to tackle the structural challenges inherent in many jurisdictions for more stringently regulated investors.

Looking ahead to 2019, we will continue our bespoke approach to portfolio construction. An exciting topic for our team would be market behaviour — on the HNWI side — and risk management in the next market cycle.”

Winners rationale

As Asia’s private banking investors go on the hunt for alternative assets to diversify their burgeoning wealth from traditional assets and counter escalating systematic risks, it comes as no surprise that private equity continues to garner attention.

Partners Group, a provider of private markets investment strategies to private investors for more than 20 years, differentiated itself from its competitors in 2018 by virtue of the robustness of its investment process and its deft ability to deliver relevant solutions for its clients.

As one of the firm’s core competencies, Partners Group’s private equity business has grown significantly over the past few years, with the manager’s invested assets in private equity hitting US$41.1 billion today out of a total AUM of US$83 billion. Not to be understated is the role the firm’s compelling investment philosophy has played in bringing Partners Group success. The asset manager employs a relative value approach to the asset class, which enables it to make high conviction calls and select regions and industry segments that are particularly appealing at any given point in time. Moreover, Partners Group’s large network provides it with access to attractive deals in direct investments, other private markets funds in the primary market, and portfolios in the secondary market.

In anticipation of mounting demand, Partners Group has translated this access to PE markets to opportunities for Asia’s private banks via a suite of solutions, understanding that private investor exposure to private markets is often hindered by high barriers to entry. It provides exposure to single- or multi-asset class strategies across a range of liquidity profiles — from close-ended to semi- and fully open-ended structures.

Testament to the traction it has gained with private investors in recent years, the portion of AUM from its distribution partners and private individuals continues to increase. Today the client segment contributes almost one-fifth of the firm’s total AUM, up from the low teens in 2016.

With a global investment platform drawing support from a workforce of over 1,200, Partners Group has also developed capabilities that put the firm in good stead to weather the headwinds posed by the increasingly exacting global regulatory environment in today’s wealth management industry. Partners Group has been selected by private banking gatekeepers as Asian Private Banker’s Best Fund Provider – Private Equity.

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