Investor
APAC Forum 2025
26 - 27 March 2025,
Sands Expo and Convention Centre Singapore
APAC's leading private debt conference
The 5th annual Private Debt Investor APAC Forum will return to Singapore on 26-27 March 2025. Join 300+ attendees including 100+ APAC investors to discuss the latest private debt strategies to support your growth in the region.
Connect with APAC’s leading investors and discover the emerging opportunities investors are exploring for 2025.
Key conversations include:
- Investor interests: Hear why APAC LPs are optimising and diversifying their private credit allocations across a range of strategies
- Outlook & forecast: Consider how private debt markets are adapting to and embracing elevated interest in the asset class
- Funds-in-focus: How flexible and creative solutions are defining the identity of Asia Pacific private lenders
- Manager spotlight: Understand which approaches by international managers are attracting Asia Pacific investors
This is your chance to fast-track your strategies and fundraising in the region.
2024 investor attendees included:
100+ LPs
Connect with LPs from across the globe over two days
60+ Speakers
Gain global insights from industry leaders
300+ Industry leaders
Expand your network. Deepen relationships. Secure capital.
Two days worth of networking and connections
2024 Keynotes
Keynote interview with MA Financial Group
Private credit: an all-weather strategy or a passing phase?
Frank Danieli (left)
Managing Director, Head of Credit Investments and Lending
MA Financial Group
Frank has discussed the structural evolution taking place in private credit, presenting a generational opportunity to lend in areas previously dominated by banks.
Hear insights from Frank as to why he believes the attractive return/low volatility dynamic could be more enduring than some fear.
Keynote fireside chat
Private Debt Investor x Monetary Authority of Singapore
Cheng Khai Lim (left)
Executive Director, Financial Markets Development Department
Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
Cheng Khai Lim, executive director at MAS(left) and our senior editor, Andy Thomson(right) had an insightful dialogue discovering the growth opportunities and the future road map of APAC private debt to empower you to be more resilient in a volatile market.
2025 featured speakers:
Download the post-event report today to discover:
- Investor attendee list
- Our featured speakers
- Key trends shaping the investor allocation
- Key highlights from the conference and much more.
What our attendees say
Dom Beckers, Portfolio Manager
Victorian Funds Management Corporation
A great opportunity to discuss amongst peers in the private debt space
Tristan Miao
Private credit investment, D.E. Shaw
Key trends in APAC private debt and networking with other funds.
Mouhammad Shahjahan
Head of Debt Services, Asia Pacific, MUFG Investor Services
A diverse set of views revolving private debt in Asia were covered by great panelists, which is hard to find at a single forum.
Apply for an institutional Investor complimentary pass
A limited number of complimentary passes are available for allocators and institutional investors to join the event.
To qualify for a complimentary pass, you must meet the eligibility criteria in representing a pension fund, insurance company, trust, sovereign wealth fund, foundation, endowment, single family office or corporate who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services.
Apply for a pass and a member of our team will follow up with you.
Raise your profile among senior private debt decision-makers
Build and develop your company’s brand image, strengthen your market credibility, and meet your investment and business goals. Sponsorship gives you:
- VIP access
- Thought-leadership opportunities
- High-profile branding
- And much more …
For more information on available sponsorship opportunities, please contact Beth Piercy at beth.p@pei.group or call +44 20 7566 5464.
2024 Sponsors
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Pre-Event Resources
Download key conversation topics
Download the agenda to learn how you can capitalise on the opportunities arising from the private debt space.
Key programme highlights include:
- How do family offices and institutional investors see private debt opportunities and their risk-return profiles?
- Understand the unique values generated from the APAC private debt in global markets
- Strategy deep dive into Direct lending, distressed, specialty finance and venture debt
- Position your firm for growth opportunities in real asset debts and asset-backed securities
- Manager research: Keys to be successful emerging managers in Asia
- Create valuable exit through ESG, corporate governance and due diligence
Tell us your preferred topics or ask your burning questions to our producer, David Stent (david.stent@pei.group)
2025 Agenda:
Agenda
PDI APAC Forum 2025 - Tuesday 25th
Women’s Networking Cocktail Reception (by invitation only)
Agenda
PDI APAC Forum 2025 - Wednesday 26th
Registration and networking
PDI welcome
Opening Keynote Panel: The Asia Pacific private debt evolution
- Discuss how a niche allocation has risen to become a priority pursuit
- The flexible and creative solutions are defining the identity of APAC private lenders compared to their international peers
- How the year’s global geopolitical events impacted market movements
- The continued contraction in bank lending signalling a more rapid shift from public to private lending
Asia Pacific's growing appetite for international opportunities
- How GPs can position themselves to address Asian funds’ conservative approach to private credit commitments
- The value of a local presence for fundraising and managing LP relationships
- Hear which global markets and sectors will enjoy increased attention in 2025
- The sectors which could be a source of unrealised value for private credit funds
Coffee & Networking
Keynote Interview with PDI Editor, Andy Thomson
Demystifying regional direct lending risk
- In a time of heightened market volatility – why senior debt can provide steady cashflow to struggling borrowers
- Examine the risk-reward profile of APAC’s debt markets versus US and EU targets
- Approaches in APAC that are defining an identity away from western models
- How private lenders can provide greater competition to Asia’s significant bank-led financing
Special Situations - the brilliance behind APAC's bread and butter strategy
- The nuances of special situation strategies across the region, what to consider and how to act on opportunities compared to international perspectives
- The promise of restructuring and refinancing in supporting long-term liquidity
- Explore the due diligence considerations that should be prioritised when assessing borrowers
- Claiming on defaults – explore why APAC enforcement regimes can be better understood and not feared
Networking lunch
PDI Presentation
The growing need for Specialty Finance in supporting asset-heavy industries
- The advantages do private lenders provide to refinancing of the construction, shipping and aviation sectors
- Understand the impacts of real estate and infrastructure debt defaults to wider markets
- The rachets lenders should include to drive sustainability measures by their borrowers
- What threats does AI pose to IP owners and lenders
Coffee & Networking
The creativity and flexibility of APAC debt origination
- Diving into the design and approach of APAC private debt deals and what separates them from global applications
- Understand the conditions forcing managers to be creative in their approaches
- What benefits can bank-syndicated or club deals provide to reducing downside risk in APAC
- The complex cultural, legal and local market structures that demand ingenuity in approach
Artificial Intelligence innovation in private credit
- How AI can support deal due diligence and risk management
- Automating asset reviews in the age of AI
- How can AI assist SMEs in generating the data that lenders demand
- Examine the scaled financing opportunities required for data centres
Family Office insights
- How entrepreneurial capital can stimulate private credit
- Hear from business leaders what motivates their choice of lender
- The thinking that makes family offices ideal pools of capital for private debt funds
- The threats facing family-owned enterprises and why private credit can allay concerns of equity loss
Day 1 Closing Remarks
Networking Cocktails
Agenda
PDI APAC Forum 2025 - Thursday 27th
Investor-only Networking Breakfast
Registration and networking refreshments
Chair’s Welcome Remarks
Opening Keynote Remarks
Private debt portfolio optimisation
- The drivers influencing the distribution of capital to particular strategies
- How flexible can GPs be to match allocators shifting mandates
- Why the secondaries markets could become a boon for investors seeking liquidity
- Consider what an ideal mix of debt products looks like in 2025
Keynote SWF Panel - Creating confidence in SEA private credit
- Better understand the growing set of opportunities arising out of South-East Asia
- Hear the latest policy directives being explored to shore-up investor confidence
- Why enforcement risk is lessened through SWF partnerships
- Opportunity to access relative value in underserved markets
Coffee & Networking
- How are allocators thinking about sizing and how much goes into private credit?
- How APAC private credit features in the portfolios of global institutional investors?
- Much of the growth in private debt has been in direct lending – Is this where global investors are growing their exposure in private debt?
NAV-Lending - Supporting the Sponsor to Exit
- The growing need for NAV lending in the current equity landscape
- Understand how NAV loans can help maximise portfolio value
- Consider what class of portfolios would benefit most from NAV finance
- How to allay LP concerns for increased finance to reach exit
Avenues into Australian Private Debt
- The demand for real asset finance driving Australia’s debt markets
- Other opportunities arising out of the central bank’s reluctance to cut interest rates
- Do Australian or global debt markets provide a model for the wider region
- Understand the thinking behind of Australian Supers allocation to private debt
Networking Lunch
Impact Debt - reimagining the influence capital can have on communities
- What covenants can be expected and how to enforce action by borrowers?
- Are the global ESG pressures beginning to be an influence in Asia?
- Which sectors can provide the greatest support to net-zero adherence?
- How lenders financing SMEs will help in the pursuit of social development goals
International institutions advancing on Asian opportunities
- Hear from the global pensions pursuing increased exposure to Asia Pacific markets
- Why Middle Eastern SWFs prefer to select APAC fund managers to deploy capital
- Why diversification to Asia Pacific has increasingly become attractive for global LPs
- The necessity of local partners to achieve desired returns and reduce risk
Closing Remarks
View the crucial topics our speakers will discuss
Download the agenda to discover new trends shaping the Asia-Pacific private debt capital.
Want to join our industry-leading speaking faculty? Contact David Stent today.
2025 Confirmed speakers:
Institutional Investors at the APAC Forum
The PDI APAC Forum provides an unrivalled platform for over 300 attendees including APAC’s leading institutional investors and allocators to gather and discuss private debt investments.
Discover the hottest strategies, best practices, and regional insights so you can come out with a breath of insights to accelerate your portfolio growth.
A limited number of complimentary passes for the event are available for institutional investors. Explore why this is the must-attend private debt event for institutional investors and see who you can meet. Apply for a complimentary pass for you or your team to join this flagship event.
2024 investor attendees included:
Investors at PDI APAC Forum 2025
The forum is the largest meeting place for institutional and private investors, and other members of the private debt community in Asia Pacific.
Check out the benefits of joining the conference and who among your peers you will be joining. Apply for a complimentary pass for your or your team today.
What to expect at the Forum?
2024 leading investor speakers included:
Fabrizio Bocciardi
Head of Credit Investments, Mubadala
David Chua
CIO, Income Insurance
Kee Heng Chuah
Managing Director, Temasek Trust Capital
Wendy Fergie
Chief Investment Officer, Wealth Pi Fund
Kulbhushan Kalia
Senior Portfolio Manager, Allianz Global Investors
Leslie Lim
Investment Director, Tsao Family Office
Chau Ly
Managing Director, Co-Head of Hong Kong Office, Aksia
Duane Perera
Investment Director, Future Fund
Dr. Lulu Wang
Portfolio Strategist – Global Private Markets' Solutions, abrdn
What to expect on the event day
100+
Institutional Investors
50+
Speakers
300+
Attendees
Investor-exclusive networking breakfast
Our investor only breakfast took place on day 2, 28 March 2024 alongside with our thought-leading speakers from ADM Capital, Australia Future Fund, and Mubadala to discuss hot private debt strategies shaping investor allocations.
Apply for your complimentary pass to partake in intimate networking with your peers.
Apply for a complimentary Institutional Investor pass
A limited number of complimentary passes are available for allocators and institutional investors to join the event.
Complimentary investor passes are limited to foundations, endowments, insurance companies, single-family offices, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services.
Apply for a pass and a member of our team will follow up with you.
Gallery
Connect with and benchmark against your investor peers. Partake in roundtable discussions, networking luncheon and investor-focussed sessions to explore new investment opportunities so you can gain insights and latest strategies to generate risk-adjusted returns.
See key insights from the Forum
Post-Event Resources
Presentation: Highlights of the private debt fundraising trends
By Andy Thomson, Private Debt Investor
Keynote presentation: Macroeconomic outlook for APAC: Emerging risks and impacts
By Clarence Wong, Peak Reinsurance
Presentation: Spotlight on China’s short and long-term outlook
By Louis Kuijs Chief Economist, Asia Pacific, S&P Global Ratings
Join us again
Capturing opportunities across private debt space
Join Asia’s premier networking place for private debt institutional investors, family offices, senior leaders and the biggest fund managers at PDI APAC Forum for a series of interactive networking focusing on different stacks in private debt.
What to expect?
2 days of
Networking
100+
Investors
300+
Global leaders
2024 investor attendees included:
Meet with senior decision-makers in private debt
Meet with 300+ attendees including institutional investors, leading fund managers, and strategic advisors from across the Asia-Pacifc at the APAC Forum.
Explore the attendee profiles and key highlights from the 2024 event in the post-show report.
Why APAC Forum?
Testimonials from regional investors and allocators
Malcolm Ong
Associate Director, Atelier Capital Partners
It was a great networking opportunity to meet various fund managers on their views on the credit market and their debt strategies.
Karun Marwah
Endue Capital
A great time spent with a quality crowd, with quality perspectives and a common pursuit.
A Marwah
Orca Credit
A brilliant conference and networking event that covers all aspects of the private debt markets and connects people who work in them.
Key trends shaping industry conversations:
- Investor stage: How do family offices and institutional investors see private debt opportunities and their risk-return profiles?
- Outlook & forecast: How will the APAC credit space evolve over the next five years?
- Strategy lab: Zooming into direct lending, distressed debt, special situations, and venture debt through an investor lens
- Macroscopic and microscopic view on private debt capital dynamics and strategy return profiles
Our leading advisory board in 2024
Interested in speaking at PDI APAC Forum next year? Please contact David Stent today.
Intimate networking. Diversified perspectives. Fuel your fundraising.
Where private debt leaders meet.
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A limited number of complimentary passes are available for institutional investors and family offices.