5th Private Equity Research Symposium

The St.Gallen Institute of Management in Asia, together with its longstanding partners from the Private Equity Research Consortium and the Institute for Private Capital (IPC) at the University of North Carolina, jointly organized the 5th annual Private Equity Research Symposium in Singapore. Held at the iconic Fullerton Hotel, it was a privilege to bring together practitioners, experts and academics from the field of private equity for a whole morning of input, discussion, and networking opportunities. 

This milestone rendition of the symposium saw a turn out of over 80 participants looking to discover current and future trends in private equity and investment opportunities in 2024. Four keynote presentations took place during the symposium. Prof. Dr. Stefan Morkötter, Full Professor of Finance at the University of St.Gallen and Managing Director of the SGI kicked off the symposium with a presentation on the “Impact of Trade Barriers on Investment Decisions of Private Equity Funds“. Prof. Dr. Gregory Brown from the Kenan-Flager Business School at the University of North Carolina generously delivered two presentations on the topics of scale in private equity and the impact of inflation on private assets. Mr. Darwin Marcelo from EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute complemented the line-up by exploring an increasingly important matter of how climate change affects infrastructure investments. 

For the first time ever, the symposium hosted two panel discussions led by distinguished experts in the field. Mr. Ben Hart from Adam Street Partners moderated the first panel discussion on “Managing Private Equity Portfolios in an Era of Depressed Exit Activity“, supported by panellists Mr. Kenrick Guo (Temasek), Mr Christian Deiss (UBS) and Mr. Foong Hsueh Min (LGT Bank). The second panel discussion was moderated by Prof. Dr. Stefan Morkötter on the topic of impact investing, featuring Joost Bilkes (Double Delta), Fernanda Lima (LeapFrog) and Kevin Lu (Partners Group) as featured panellists.