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BlackRock has achieved a USD673 million final fundraise for the Climate Finance Partnership (CFP), a flagship public-private finance vehicle focused on investing in climate infrastructure across emerging markets to help accelerate the global transition to a net zero economy.
A global consortium of 22 investors including governments, philanthropies, and institutional investors committed to the fundraise, which was oversubscribed and exceeded its target of USD500 million.
The BlackRock Investment Institute estimates that the world needs to invest USD1 trillion annually into low-carbon projects in developing countries in order to achieve a just transition to a net zero global economy. This
Lief Labs, a formulation and product development innovator and manufacturer of dietary supplements, has been capitalised through new partnerships with Prairie Capital, Skyline Global Partners, S2G Ventures, Lief Labs’ management team, and Lief’s founder and CEO, Adel Villalobos.
This new collaboration will provide recapitalisation investments and strategic advisory resources with Lief’s management team to support the company’s scalable growth. Lief will focus its growth strategy on key areas, including technology innovation, raw materials and formulations business expansion, supply chain management, human capital development, customer service resources, increased production capacity, and world-class manufacturing operations and facilities.
According to the
By Ashmita Chhabra and Mark Voumard – Singapore stands out as best in class as a location to do business in APAC with its political and economic stability, sound and predictable regulation, an engaged regulator, world-class infrastructure, and as an innovative financial centre with a well-developed range of service providers.
By Ashmita Chhabra – With the United Nation’s COP26 summit approaching, the need to do more to address climate change is once again in focus. As a key financial services hub in Asia, Singapore has an important role in the development and integration of sustainable finance practices into the real economy. The capital market’s ability to drive meaningful change by encouraging disclosure, stakeholder engagement and innovative green financing initiatives are all part of Singapore’s commitment.
By Tom Lin and Morgan Shubin, Clifford Chance – It has become fashionable to say that secondary transactions are now ‘mainstream’, with some market participants pointing to the flourishing GP-led segment of the market as a ‘fourth leg’ option for liquidity alongside conventional exit routes for PE assets (i.e. sale process, IPO or recapitalisation). That might not be necessarily a perfect characterisation, though we suspect it might be to a degree with some nuance. However you might characterise it, the growth in deal activity (market commentators expect transaction value to exceed USD100 billion for the first time in 2021), extraordinary fundraising, the
By Mark Voumard – The genesis of Singapore’s asset management industry development: 2021 – 2035
By Armin P. Choksey – In the last few years, the world has witnessed significant progress in harmonising environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure frameworks. The launch of new initiatives globally shows that both investors and stakeholders recognise the value of streamlining ESG disclosures and the importance of consolidating them.
By Martin O’Regan – Comprising more than 1,000 managers with USD4 trillion of assets under management makes Singapore a leading Asian investment management hub. These impressive numbers demonstrate potential for the ever-changing industry.
A shifting and growing business landscape requires firm leadership, thoughtful insights, reforms, and competency training to ensure the community can continue to capitalise on industry trends. The successful launch and take on of the Singapore Variable Companies Act (VCC) has been the catalyst for a lot of the current growth. With a pro-business regulator marketing locally and overseas, together with the local funds community being strong advocators of the
Singapore continues to make significant efforts to further promote the appeal of the Lion City to hedge funds, private equity and other alternative investment managers, and it seems that its strategy is working. In 2020, Singapore’s asset management industry grew strongly, with assets under management (AuM) rising more than 17 per cent overall and at 31 per cent year-on-year in the alternatives sector. Venture capital and private equity continue to be strong performers within this segment.
MidOcean Partners (MidOcean), a New York-based alternative asset manager specialising in middle-market private equity and alternative credit investments, has taken the next step to position the firm for long-term growth by partnering with Hunter Point Capital (HPC), which has made a strategic, minority investment in MidOcean.
MidOcean’s investment process, management, and day-to-day operations will remain unchanged. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Launched in 2020 by veteran investors Bennett Goodman and Avi Kalichstein, HPC is dedicated to pursuing long-term strategic partnerships with proven middle-market investment firms to help them achieve their business objectives. MidOcean intends to leverage HPC’s
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