06
Mar
Asia deep dive: Why, where, and how?
Many LPs have retreated to areas of perceived safety, which translates into robust demand for US buyout strategies. Asia struggles to claim or maintain allocations given longstanding concerns about realized returns in an environment where distributions are paramount. Nevertheless, certain markets still command a following, from India to Japan to Australia, and the region in general can point to long-term macro tailwinds. Investors explain where they are seeing the most attractive opportunities in Asia.
- What is the best way for GPs to make the case for Asia?
- How are buyouts shaping up in emerging markets?
- Are Japan and India at risk of being oversold?
- What more could Asia-based managers do to generate liquidity?
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SpeakersBhavik Vashi Managing Director, Asia Pacific & Middle East CARTA
Brooke Zhou Partner LGT CAPITAL PARTNERS
Nicholas Bloy Co-Founder & Managing Partner NAVIS CAPITAL PARTNERS
Neal Kok Head of Southeast Asia and Australia GENERAL ATLANTIC
Michael Chae Partner L CATTERTON
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Bhavik Vashi is the Managing Director for Asia Pacific & Middle East at Carta. Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Carta manages over two trillion dollars in equity for nearly two million people globally and is trusted by more than 30,000 companies, over 5,000 investment funds, and half a million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity venture capital solutions, and more.
Prior to this, Bhavik was Area Vice President & General Manager for Asia at Anaplan, a global cloud-based planning software company that empowers customers to be agile and resilient to change, and make better, faster decisions by enabling connecting planning across the enterprise. Bhavik was an early employee at Anaplan and spent nearly a decade there, serving in various different GTM roles in both the AMER and APAC regions. He helped build and scale the company from a disruptive start-up with ~80 employees and
Bhavik is passionate about supporting the startup ecosystem, and is an active angel investor and advisor to startups globally. He has also previously been interviewed on numerous podcasts and Singapore radio stations, such as MoneyFM, and has spoken at a range of events within the tech and finance space, including the Future of Finance Summit.
Brooke Zhou is Partner of LGT Capital Partners, she co-leads LGT CP’s private equity business in Asia. LGT Capital Partners is a leading institutional alternative asset and fund of funds manager, currently managing over USD 100 billion AuM on a global basis and over 600 private equity professionals worldwide. The firm is headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland (near Zurich) and has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, New York, Raleigh, Dublin, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vaduz and Dubai.
Prior to joining LGT Capital Partners in 2010, Ms. Zhou was with CDH Investments, a leading Chinese private equity manager, based in Beijing. Prior to CDH Investments, Ms. Zhou spent her career at Bain & Company in Shanghai, as well as Oracle Corporation in Redwood Shores, California.
Ms. Zhou earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ms. Zhou grew up in Shanghai and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Nicholas Bloy, Managing Partner – is one of the three founders of Navis Capital Partners. Navis currently manages USD 5 billion in private and public equity funds.
Mr. Bloy leads investment teams in making, monitoring and exiting investments, sits on Investment Committee and sits on the boards and/or executive committees of several Navis portfolio companies, and is responsible for fundraising. He also sits on the International Advisory Council of CIMB, one of the Southeast Asia’s largest banking groups.
Prior to co-founding Navis, Mr. Bloy worked at The Boston Consulting Group in Asia from 1989 to 1999 after spending 3 years with Bain & Co. In London.
He holds a BA Hons degree from University College, London and an MBA from INSEAD, France.
Neal Kok is a Managing Director at General Atlantic. Neal is based in Singapore where he focuses on investments in the firm’s portfolio companies that operate in the Southeast Asia and Australia region.
Before joining General Atlantic in 2024, Neal worked at the KKR offices of Sydney and Singapore. Prior to that, Neal worked at Treadstone Partners and Goldman Sachs in Australia.
Education
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Bachelor of Laws & Bachelor of Commerce
Mr. Chae is a Partner of Investor Relations at L Catterton. Prior to joining L Catterton, he was a Principal, Client Relations at IFC Asset Management Company, where he was responsible for fundraising and investor relations activities across various alternative asset classes in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director within the Alternative Investments Group at PineBridge Investments in Tokyo and Singapore. Mr. Chae has over 25 years of relevant experience and has held several other senior positions at global investment firms including Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore.
Mr. Chae graduated with honours from the University of Rochester with a BA in Economics and Japanese.