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

Expand your network at the most established debt event

Connect with 100+ emerging and established APAC investors actively exploring debt opportunities.

Discover new opportunities with like-minded leaders

Have meaningful conversations with private debt experts about top return strategies and best practices for securing capital.

Diversify your portfolio with private debt

Understand how the evolving landscape is creating unique opportunities that are favouring both investors and private lenders.

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.

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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.

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2024 featured speakers included:

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  • 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.

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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.

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2024 Sponsors

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Lead + Wifi Sponsor

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Lanyard Sponsor

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2025 agenda

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2024 Investor list

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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

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2025 Agenda:

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
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Agenda

PDI APAC Forum 2025 - Tuesday 25th

All times in UTC+8 (Singapore)
18:00 - 19:00

Women’s Networking Cocktail Reception (by invitation only)

Agenda

PDI APAC Forum 2025 - Wednesday 26th

All times in UTC+8 (Singapore)
08:30 - 09:00

Registration and networking

09:00 - 09:10

PDI welcome

09:10 - 10:00

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
10:00 - 10:50

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
10:50 - 11:20

Coffee & Networking

11:20 - 11:40

Keynote Interview with PDI Editor, Andy Thomson

Andy Thomson
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Andy Thomson

Senior Editor, Private Debt Investor, PEI Group

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11:40 - 12:20

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
12:20 - 13:00

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
13:00 - 14:00

Networking lunch

14:00 - 14:15

PDI Presentation

14:15 - 14:50

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
14:50 - 15:20

Coffee & Networking

15:20 - 16:00

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
16:00 - 16:40

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
16:40 - 17:20

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
17:20 - 17:30

Day 1 Closing Remarks

17:30 - 18:30

Networking Cocktails

Agenda

PDI APAC Forum 2025 - Thursday 27th

All times in UTC+8 (Singapore)
08:15 - 08:30

Investor-only Networking Breakfast

08:30 - 09:00

Registration and networking refreshments

09:00 - 09:10

Chair’s Welcome Remarks

09:10 - 09:30

Opening Keynote Remarks

09:30 - 10:10

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
10:10 - 10:40

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
10:40 - 11:10

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?
11:10 - 11:50

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
11:50 - 12:30

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
12:30 - 13:30

Networking Lunch

13:30 - 14:00

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
14:00 - 14:40

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
14:40 - 14:45

Closing Remarks

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2024 Confirmed speakers:

Monica Bae

Director of Investor Practice, Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC)

Jingjing Bai

Senior Advisor, Bfinance

Mohd Sedek Bin Jantan

Head of Wealth Research and Advisory, Designated Portfolio Manager, UOB Kay Hian Wealth Advisors

Fabrizio Bocciardi

Head of Credit Investments, Mubadala

Drew Bowie

Managing Director, MA Financial Group

Anthony Chan

Chief Executive Officer, Isola Capital

Henry Chin

Global Head of Investor Thought Leadership and Head of Research, APAC, CBRE

Yunsam (Sam) Cho

General Manager, Overseas Alternative Investment Team, Kyobo Life Insurance

David Chua

CIO, Income Insurance

Kee Heng Chuah

Managing Director, Temasek Trust Capital

Ryan Chung

Managing Director and Head of Principal Investment, Huatai International

Andrew Cleland-Bogle

Partner, Head of Direct Lending, Bridgepoint

James Cowper

Director, Principle Advisory Services

Frank Danieli

Managing Director, Head of Credit Investments and Lending, MA Financial Group

Rohit Dhote

Partner, Co-Head Credit Opportunities, Bridgepoint

Wendy Fergie

Chief Investment Officer, Wealth Pi Fund

Justin Ferrier

Managing Partner, Private Credit, Navis Capital Partners

Brendan Foley

Director, Private Credit, Rede Partners

Lisa Genasci

Managing Director, Climate and Sustainability, ADM Capital

Mark Glengarry

Head of APAC, Blackstone Credit

Jiahao He

Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer, 3 Capital Partners

David Hirschmann

Co-Head, , Permira Credit

Justin Hooley

Managing Director, Global Private Finance, Barings

Lakshmi Iyer

Chief Executive Officer – Investment & Strategy, Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Limited (KAAML)

Kulbhushan Kalia Allianz

Kulbhushan Kalia

Senior Portfolio Manager, Allianz Global Investors

Daniel Kemp

APAC Editor, Infrastructure Investor

Dr. Guan Seng Khoo

Quant/Risk Management and AI, Public Pension and Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment Expert

Ethan Koh

Global Head of Research Operations, PEI Group

Kerrine Koh

Managing Director, Head of Southeast Asia, Hamilton Lane

Samantha Kong

Senior Investment Director, Cambridge Associates

Mangesh Kulkarni

Managing Director, Axis Capital

Melanie Lawrence

Senior Manager: Guarantees & Specialised Finance, Afreximbank

Kher Sheng Lee

Managing Director, Co-Head of APAC and Deputy Global Head of Government Affairs, AIMA / ACC

Soo Cheon Lee

CIO, SC Lowy

Susan Lee

Head of Private Credit and Hedge Fund IDD, Asia, Albourne Partners

Daniel Leger

Managing Director, MGG Investment Group

Cheng Khai Lim

Executive Director, Financial Markets Development Department, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Leslie Lim

Investment Director, Tsao Family Office

Sean Low

CEO and CIO, Golden Vision Capital (Singapore)

Chau Ly

Managing Director, Co-Head of Hong Kong Office, Aksia

Barnaby Lyons

Partner and Global Co-Head of Special Situations, Bain Capital

Valerie Mantot-Groene, Apex Group

Valerie Mantot-Groene

Regional Managing Director, ASEAN, Apex Group

Karun Marwah

Founding Partner, Endue

Scott McClurg

Head of Private Credit, HSBC Asset Management

Yogiraj Nadgauda

Director, RDA Investments

Chau Nguyen

Director, Westlake Capital Partners

Rebecca Percossi

Executive Managing Director, Trimont

Duane Perera

Investment Director, Future Fund

Nick Raphaely

Co-founder and Co-CEO, AltX Group

Diane Raposio

Partner, Head of Asia Credit & Markets, KKR

Johannes Raschke

Senior Investment Officer, International Finance Corporation - IFC

Diana Reeves, Cabot Capital Partners

Diana Reeves

Director, Cabot Capital Partners

Dan Robinson

EMEA Head of Alternative Credit, DWS

Souvik Saha

Director, Asia-Pacific Investments, Oxford Properties Group

Dylan Szymanski

Executive Managing Director and Head of Europe and Asia Corporate Credit, Sculptor

Audrey The

Managing Director, Cambridge Associates

Andy Thomson

Senior Editor, Private Debt Investor, PEI Group

Yiu Joe Toh

Director, Aglaia Family Office

Meng Yee Tuck

Partner, JRT Partners

Pramod Vijayasankar, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Pramod Vijayasankar

Lead Investment Officer, Investment Operations, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Emma Wang

General Manager Hong Kong Branch, East West Bank

Dr. Lulu Wang

Portfolio Strategist – Global Private Markets' Solutions, abrdn

Ping Xu

Co-Head of Hong Kong Office, Aksia

Celia Yan

Managing Director, Head of APAC Private Credit, BlackRock

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.

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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.

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What to expect at the Forum?

Meet the biggest Asian and global funds

Network and arrange one-to-one meetings with the biggest and leading private debt managers.

Network with your peers

Connect with your peers and understand their strategies and allocation approach to private debt at our networking cocktail and luncheon.

Get the latest insights

Discuss the opportunities and challenges your peers are facing in the market at the investor roundtable.

Explore new opportunities

Find investment opportunities across different debt strategies, from direct lending, mezzanine, to real estate debt.

2024 leading investor speakers included:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Why APAC Forum?

Your window to diversified investor perspectives

Understand what institutional investors are looking for in private debt and their fund selection processes from family offices and institutional investor standpoints.

Discover new opportunities with like-minded leaders

Meet with 300+ senior private debt decision-makers in APAC and navigate the best performing markets and high-yielding strategies in 2024 and beyond.

Stay ahead of the curve

Delve into trending strategies shaping your portfolio design at our thematic roundtables. Partake in casual discussions across cocktail drinks, networking lunch and many more.

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

Secure your access to the conference today

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Our leading advisory board in 2024

Interested in speaking at PDI APAC Forum next year? Please contact David Stent today.

Mark Aarons

Head of Investment Risk and Absolute Returns, Victorian Funds Management Corporation

Anthony Chan

Chief Executive Officer, Isola Capital

Ray King

Managing Director, Sovereign Investment Research

Elizabeth Kumaru

Head of Private Corporate Assets, Australian Retirement Trust

Sean Low

CEO and CIO, Golden Vision Capital (Singapore)

Sabita Prakash

Managing Director, ADM Capital

Andrew Tan

CEO, Asia Pacific, Muzinich & Co

Andy Thomson

Senior Editor, Private Debt Investor, PEI Group

Intimate networking. Diversified perspectives. Fuel your fundraising.

Where private debt leaders meet.

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Complimentary investor pass

A limited number of complimentary passes are available for institutional investors and family offices.

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