private equity investments

Singapore and Malaysia contributed to most of the PE deals this quarter, and over 75% of deals were infrastructure related.

In other news, Singapore will invest close to $300 million in quantum tech, to add 300MW in data centre capacity.

Despite the market sell off in March, family offices have protected themselves from the worst of it by managing to rebalance their portfolios, according to UBS's Global Family Office Report.

The Covid-19 pandemic has already had a notable impact on public equity markets, with the MSCI ACWI Index declining by just over 20% for the first quarter of 2020. By contrast, the impact on private markets such as real estate has been harder to establish

(Apr 3): Private-equity (PE) investments in AsiaPacific declined last year after record highs in 2017 and 2018.