AVCJ Private Equity Forum Singapore 2024
The Westin, Singapore and Online
25
Apr
Private credit: Betting bigger
Private credit investors are proving to be beneficiaries of prevailing market conditions as rising interest rates improve the risk-return of fixed income. Meanwhile, companies are increasingly turning to alternative lenders as banks pull bank and downward pressure on valuations means equity capital raising is delayed. LPs must choose the managers and strategies that best fit their needs in a diverse ecosystem.
- Which jurisdictions offer the strongest private credit proposition?
- What happens if there is an uptick in defaults by borrowers?
- How does downside protection vary across different markets?
- What should LPs be mindful of when making allocations to private credit?
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SpeakersXander Huang Head of Sales, ASEAN APEX
SJ Lim Managing Director, Asia Credit KKR
Justin Ferrier Managing Partner-Navis Private Credit NAVIS
Sandeep Chandak Managing Director ELHAM CREDIT PARTNERS
Kanchan Jain CEO BPEA CREDIT
Raymond Chan Head of Asia Credit CPPIB
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Xander is the Head of Sales for the ASEAN region at Apex Group, a global financial services firm providing an extensive range of solutions across the full value chain to institutional asset managers, capital markets, corporates and family offices. He is an avid Top Gun fan who happens to be an experienced business development professional with over 10 years of experience in the financial services industry. In his current role, his is responsible for sales growth and client coverage across ASEAN.
SJ Lim joined KKR in 2019 and is a Managing Director and Head of Southeast Asia and India Credit. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Lim spent 13 years at Credit Suisse where he was responsible for the private financing business in Southeast Asia, India and Australia, which spanned corporate loans, leveraged finance, structure credit and share financing for corporates and ultra high net worth counterparties. Mr. Lim holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a first class honors in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics.
Mr. Ferrier is a Managing Partner of Navis Private Credit. Mr. Ferrier has more than 30 years of experience, which includes more than 20 years as a credit investor, portfolio manager and business leader.
Previously he was a Managing Director at BlackRock where he played a pivotal role in building BlackRock’s Asian-Pacific Private Credit business, growing AUM to $700m and developing a successful regional strategy focusing on Southeast Asia and Australia.
Prior to BlackRock, he was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Myo Capital. The fund delivered 14% gross returns. Prior to Myo Capital he was a Director / Investment Committee Member with ADM Capital and a Corporate Finance Executive with Peregrine Capital and SG Warburg Group.
Mr. Ferrier holds an MBA, majoring in Finance and Accounting from Monash University and a Bachelor in Science from the University of South Australia.
Sandeep has over 18 years of experience in Asia Pacific credit markets including Australia, India, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan.
Prior to Elham, he was Senior Managing Director at Varde Partners’ Asia Corporate and Traded Credit team and was responsible for the significant growth of the Asian book. At Varde, Sandeep led the firm’s investments across various strategies including special situations, private credit, restructuring and secondary trading as well as led strategic initiatives for the firm.
Prior to Varde, Sandeep worked for over a decade at Deutsche Bank Hong Kong and Mumbai as a lead trader in Distressed and Illiquids, covering Asia Pacific stressed loans and bonds and performing loans. Sandeep holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from University of Delhi and is a Chartered Accountant.
Ms. Kanchan Jain has 30 years of experience in corporate and structured finance, private credit, and loan and debt capital markets across Europe and Asia. She has worked in origination, structuring, underwriting, and risk management. As founder and head of BPEA Credit Group, Ms. Jain is responsible for the overall business across all its investment & non-investment functions. Over the last 11 years, Ms. Jain and the leadership team at BPEA Credit have led the creation and build-out of BPEA Credit into one of Asia's leading private credit management groups, focused on structured debt investments in the mid and large corporate sectors.
Before moving to India in 2008, Ms. Jain worked for 10 years in London as Managing Director, Co-Head of Structuring at HSBC, and before that as Director at Barclays Capital in the Structured Credit business. Before that, Ms. Jain worked in the Asian debt capital markets across debt syndication, loan trading & risk, based out of Hong Kong and in project finance based out of India. Ms. Jain has lived and worked in India, Asia & the UK and holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from VNIT and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
Raymond joined CPPIB in October 2019 and leads our Asia credit business. He is the chair of the APAC Credit Committee and a member of our Global Credit Committee. He is also the co-chair of the Credit Committee of The HKVCA. Prior to joining CPP Investments, he was a managing director at SSG Capital, responsible for special situations investments and secured lending in Greater China.
Previously, Raymond was the head of Greater China at Intermediate Capital Group, senior fund manager at RAB Capital and head of Asia Asset Management at D.B. Zwirn. He started his career with HSBC, departing as a team head of the Real Estate Sector.
Raymond holds a BSSc in Economics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and an MBA from the EMBA program of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.