The essential meeting point for private equity decision-makers
The 23rd AVCJ Private Equity Forum Australia & New Zealand successfully took place in Sydney and online on 3-5 March. The event brought together over 750 Private market professionals including 290+ LPs representing 410+ different organisations from 21 countries.
The conference, which focused on managing portfolios, and finding deals and exits at a time of global macroeconomic and political instability opened with a keynote interview featuring Hon Peter Costello AC, Former Treasurer and Future Fund Chairman and Tim Sims AM, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Pacific Equity Partners. Later in the day Jenny Newmarch, Head of Private Markets featured in a keynote Interview with Tim Burroughs, Managing Editor, Global Private Funds, and Managing Editor, AVCJ at Mergermarket.
The forum also featured leading executives from Australian Retirement Trust, Carlyle, NZ Super Fund, Blackstone, Cbus, Affinity Equity Partners, Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, TPG Asia and Advent speaking on a number of well-researched topics Including how are macro, political, and regulatory issues impacting dealmaking, to what extent is artificial intelligence changing the investment landscape, are continuation vehicles a near-term liquidity fix or a long-term structural trend, the asset classes and strategies that are most popular with private wealth, how Australian VC’s differentiate themselves when marketing to global LPs, where LPs are putting their money and why.
The AVCJ Australia and New Zealand Forum returns to Sydney in March 2027.
