
Japan and Korea’s leading private debt fundraising conferences
The 7th annual PDI Japan Korea Week returns to Seoul and Tokyo in June 2025. Be part of this edition to connect and accelerate your fundraising with the most active Japanese and Korean private credit investors.
Across the week you’ll meet over 400 global attendees to explore the latest trends, allocations and solutions shaping private debt in the region.
Two regional conferences over one week
2025 investor speakers include:

Why Japan Korea Week?
Connect with leading Japanese & Korean investors
Previous attendees include GPIF, Lotte Non-Life Insurance, Mirae Life Asset, National Pension Service, Noritz Corporate Pension Fund amongst many others.
Gain strategic insights from the market
Hear from regional investors and strategists who will share their tips and tricks on how to navigate global uncertainties.
Enhance your portfolios with the latest insights
Explore the latest private debt trends and tactics from market specialists and investigate which strategies will gain traction in 2024 and beyond.
“The conference provided significant insight into the way Japanese and Korean LPs and fund managers are thinking about private credit today.”
Vineet Sukumar, Founder & Managing Director, CredAvenue
Registration questions
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enquiries
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일한 최고의 프라이빗 뎃 컨퍼런스
6월 25일(화)-27일(목) 서울및 일본에서 열리는 제6회 연례 PDI Japan Korea Week 에서 한국 및 전 세계 주요 기관투자자들과 다시 만나보세요.
KIC, 국민연금공단, 행정공제회 등 다수의 투자자들과 함께 기관투자자들의 자산 배분과 포트폴리오 전략을 형성하는 동향을 분석하세요.
주요 주제는 다음과 같습니다:
- 2024년 한국 및 글로벌 투자자 성향 및 배분 선호도
- 자본 흐름 및 의사 결정 프로세스를 형성하는 새롭고 정교한 전략 평가
- 불확실성 속의 포트폴리오 성장
- 안전한 피난처 전략과 포트폴리오 발견
Why Japan Korea Week?
사모 부채 투자자들이
놓칠 수 없는 연례 회의
교직원공제회, 롯데손해보험, 삼성화재해상보험 등 거대 투자자들과 함께 국내 유일무이한 프라이빗 뎃 컨퍼런스에 참여하세요.
글로벌 인사이트.
지역별 특화된 정보
지역 전문가 및 글로벌 펀드 매니저와 함께 글로벌 시장에 대해 자세히 살펴보시고 포트폴리오 구축 위한 최적의 전략 조합에 대해 알아보세요.
단 일주일 만에 자금 조성 활동을 가속화하세요
투자자 네트워크를 확장하고, 싱크탱크에 가입하며, 보다 유연한 환경에서 한국의 프라이빗 뎃 투자 의사 결정권자들과 강력한 관계를 구축하세요.
2024년참가기업리스트
2023 연사진

Antonella Napolitano
Managing Director, Global Head of Investor Relations & Capital Formation, Deerpath Capital Management

Yunsuk Oh
Senior Investment Manager, Alternative Investment, National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives
이벤트 최신 자료
올해 놓칠 수 없는 프라이핏 뎃 컨퍼런스 시리즈
컨퍼런스를 형성하는 주요 주제:
- Private Debt Investor 의 LP 연구 보고에서 투자자 관점 배우기
- 발전하는 실사 프로세스와 위험 완화를 위한 노하우 이해
- 프라이빗 뎃의 미래 – 기회는 어디에?
- 전략 심층 분석: 주류 대 틈새 전략 평가 – 어디에 머물러야 하나?
- 그 외
기관 투자자 참가 패스 신청
자산 배분 기관과 기관 투자자이신 경우 이벤트에 참여할 수 있는 제한된 수의 무료 패스가 제공됩니다.
참석권을 받으시려면 연금 기금, 보험 회사, 국부 펀드, 개인 자산 관리자, 재단, 기부금, 패밀리 오피스 또는 기업 투자 부서를 대표하는 자격 기준을 충족해야 합니다.
패스를 신청하시면 저희 팀원이 참가 확정 여부 확인을 위해 연락할 예정입니다.
アジアを代表するプライベートデットのカンファレンス
6月25日(火)~27日(木)に開催される「Private Debt investor Japan Korea Week」で、日本と韓国の投資家の立場から世界のプライベートデットの機会を評価。
本イベントでは、アジアを代表するプライベートデットの2大カンファレンス、「Tokyo Forum」と「Seoul Forum」において、200名を超える有力なプライベートデット投資家のネットワークと貴重な市場に関する考察をご紹介します。
市場の変動が激しい中、日本と韓国の投資家の投資の方向性、そして追い風と新しく登場した戦略がポートフォリオをどのように形成していくかを理解しましょう。
Why Japan Korea Week?
プライベートデット
投資家の年次総会
GPIF(年金積立金管理運用独立行政法人)、JST、ゆうちょ銀行をはじめ多数の大物投資家が参加する日本唯一のプライベートデットのカンファレンスにぜひご参加ください。
グローバルな洞察力、
地域の情報
地域のスペシャリストや グローバルなファンドマネージャーと グローバル市場を深く掘り下げ、 ポートフォリオを構築するための 最適な戦略ミックスを理解しましょう。
わずか1週間で
資金調達を加速
投資家ネットワークを拡大し、シンクタンクに参加して、日本のプライベートデットにおける上級意思決定者と強い関係を構築しましょう。
2023登壇者

Xiaodong (Akina) Chang
Senior Fund Manager, Private Equity Investment Department, Tokio Marine Asset Management

Kunio Kamoi
Senior Product Manager, Fund Research and Development Division, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation
カンファレンスを形成する主要なテーマ:
- Private Debt InvestorのLP調査から投資家の視点を学ぶ
- 進化するデューデリジェンスのプロセスとリスク軽減のノウハウを理解する
- プライベートデットの未来を占う-どこにチャンスが眠っているのか?
- 戦略を深く掘り下げる:主流戦略とニッチ戦略を評価 – どこに留まるべきか?
- デット市場の理解:欧米、アジア太平洋
- その他、豊富な内容を含む
2023年参加者の一部をご紹介します:
「PDI Japan Korea Week」の一環として
最新イベント情報
機関投資家向け参加パスを申し込む
アロケーターや機関投資家の皆様には本イベントへの無料参加パスを限定数でご用意しております。
無料参加パスの資格を得るには、年金基金、保険会社、政府系ファンド、富裕層資産管理会社、財団、基金、ファミリーオフィス、企業投資部門の代表など、資格条件を満たしている必要があります。
お申し込みいただいた方には、弊社担当者よりパスの確保についてご連絡差し上げます。
Pre-Event Resources
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@peimedia.com or call +44 20 7566 5464.
2024 Sponsors:
Creating global opportunities for Korean capital
24 June | Conrad Seoul
The 7th annual PDI Seoul Forum is back in June 2025. Connect and accelerate your fundraising alongside over 200 of Korea’s leading investors and global fund managers.
Understand the latest trends shaping investor allocation preferences, as well as the key solutions shaping private credit in Korea.
Part of PDI Japan Korea Week
The Seoul Forum is part of PDI Japan Korea Week taking place in June 2025. Connect with over 400 attendees during a week of unrivalled networking opportunities across two regions.
Learn more on how you can grow your investor network during the week here.
2025 Speakers include:

Yunsuk Oh
Senior Investment Manager, Alternative Investment, National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives
Why attend the Seoul Forum?

Meet Korea’s investor community
Connect with top investors, including KIC, POBA, and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance to foster strong relationships.

Gain a strategic edge in private credit
Understand investors’ changing needs and appetite shift towards different strategies in the evolving private debt market.

Build lasting relationships
Catch with Korean investors and global private credit leaders to discuss future allocations.
What our delegates say
Qianru Yang
Keppel Capital
It provides good insight into how Korean LPs think about this asset class.
Ryoko Katayam
Topaz Capital
Very well organized and structured. Great access to the asset class’ leading players and insights.
Juno, Hee Kyoung Yoon
Schroders
Founding members gave us insightful sharing and perspectives from regional LP are inspiring.
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 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 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.
Registration questions
Luca Greene
luca.g@pei.group
Sponsorship
enquiries
Beth Piercy
beth.p@pei.group
Speaking opportunities
Niann Lai
niann.l@pei.group
Discover trending topics at the Seoul Forum
Download the agenda today to discover trending topics shaping Korean investor allocations.
If you are interested in speaking opportunities at the event please contact Niann Lai at Niann.l@pei.group
Agenda
PDI Seoul Forum - Tuesday 24th
Registration and networking refreshments
LP Breakfast Briefing
By invitation only. This session will be off-the-record for qualified institutional investors and allocators to interact with industry peers and discuss your experience.
PDI welcome
Opening remarks from the Chairperson
Opening panel: What's next for private credit? [English]
- Assess the trends in private debt allocations between developed and developing economies
- How will markets react to external geopolitical shifts and regulatory cutbacks
- Opportunities for global funds to attract Korean capital seeking greater portfolio diversity
- Understand the strategies gaining rapid attention in a swiftly maturing market
Keynote C-Suite panel: Why Korean LPs prioritizing private credit strategies [Korean]
- How are CIOs managing FX exposure, illiquidity premiums and exit risks in private credit?
- Private debt: as a replacement or complement to traditional fixed income?
- How are Korean LPs tailoring global private credit strategies to meet domestic portfolio needs?
- Road ahead: Are CIOs looking to build internal teams or increase strategy partnerships?
Networking break
Perfectly in balance - the attraction of direct lending's low-risk and evergreen returns [English]
- Engage with how direct lending’s need for revolving credit creates evergreen returns
- The attraction for Japanese investors for predictable cash flows
- Explore the individual benefits of sponsored versus non-sponsored deals
- Which markets are proving to have the best risk-return profiles across the direct lending landscape
Keynote fireside chat: From Allocator to Architect: Redefining investment leadership in a changing world
Networking lunch
Panel: Private credit strategies: Key moves for Korean investors [English/ Korean]
- Discuss with global private debt leaders how they approach their niche
- Better engage with the range of strategies at play in an expanding marketplace
- An allocator’s view on what makes for an attractive manager engaging in a particular area
- The risk-reward profiles of different strategies, and the variances between the US and EU
Panel: Beyond traditional portfolios: How opportunistic credit is redefining diversification [English/ Korean]
- The role of opportunistic credit in economic volatility
- Understanding the spectrum: special situations, distressed, and structured Credit e.g. collateralized loan obligations (CLOs)
- Selecting the right managers in opportunistic credit
- Perspectives on liability management transactions
Networking break
Presentation: PDI's fundraising reports analysis [English]

Panel: Real asset debt and the attraction of long-term returns [English/ Korean}
- Why real estate and infrastructure remain a crucial asset class for Korean investors
- How to access the growing demand for residential real estate
- The intersection between digital infrastructure and real estate demand
- Why the prospect of long-term certainty allows for greater short-term risk
Closing keynote investor panel: Role of Korean LPs in guiding market development [Korean]
- How is the present landscape impacting decision-makers’ commitment to private debt in terms of scale, strategies and sectors?
- What is the most important advice for private debt fund managers?
- What are investors’ mid-long term portfolio strategies and key focus in H2 of 2025?




Closing remarks, followed by Cocktail reception
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.
2025 Sponsors
Connecting Japanese capital to global private debt opportunities
26-27 June | Four Seasons Otemachi
The 7th annual PDI Tokyo Forum returns in June 2025. Connect and accelerate your fundraising alongside over 200 of Japan’s leading investors and global fund managers.
Understand the latest trends shaping investor allocation preferences, as well as the key solutions shaping private credit in Japan.
New for 2025: We’ve extended the Tokyo Forum to 1.5 days, providing increased networking opportunities and additional insights.
Part of Japan Korea Week
The Tokyo Forum is part of Private Debt Investor Japan Korea Week taking place in June 2025. Connect with over 400 attendees during a week of unrivalled networking opportunities across two regions.
Learn more on how you can grow your investor network during the week here.
2025 speakers include:

Yayoi Sagae
Managing Director and Head of Alternative Investment Department, Nomura Asset Management
Why attend the Tokyo Forum?

Meet Japan’s investor community
Connect with top investors, including GPIF, Japan Post Bank, and Dai-ichi Life Insurance during networking and insightful plenary sessions.

Gain a strategic edge in private credit
Understand investors’ changing needs and appetite shift towards different strategies in the evolving private debt market.

Build lasting relationships
Catch up with Japanese investors and global private credit leaders to discuss future portfolio strategies.
What our delegates say
Qianru Yang
Keppel Capital
Well thought through and relevant content. Provides good insight into how LPs think about this asset class.
Ryoko Katayama
Topaz Capital
Very well organized and structured. Great access to the assets’ leading players and insights.
Harald Eggerstedt
Towers Watson
PDI events bring private debt investment and structuring expertise together like no other conference I have attended.
Apply for a complimentary Institutional Investor 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, sovereign wealth fund, private wealth manager, foundation, endowment, family office or corporate investment division 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.
Registration questions
Luca Greene
luca.g@pei.group
Sponsorship
enquiries
Beth Piercy
beth.p@pei.group
Speaking opportunities
Niann Lai
niann.l@pei.group
Discover trending topics
Download the agenda today to discover trending topics shaping the Japanese investor allocations.
Interested in speaking opportunities? Contact our producer niann.l@pei.group
Agenda
PDI Tokyo Forum 2025 - Thursday 26th
Registration and welcome refreshments
LP Breakfast Briefing - Hosted by Gemcorp
By invitation only. This session will be off-the-record for qualified institutional investors and allocators to interact with industry peers and discuss your experience.

PEI Opening remarks and Welcome from the Chairperson
Keynote panel: Riding the macro waves: How private credit is reshaping global capital markets [English]
- Higher for longer – how elevated interest rates will drive private debt decisions
- Anticipate the effects and opportunities from new regulatory and tax regimes in the US
- Hear from fund managers which strategies can expect to grow in the coming years
Panel: A new dawn for direct lending, opportunities arising in times of change [English]
- What can be learnt from the US middle market’s capacity for adaptation
- Finding private credit opportunities in markets that are typically overlooked or oversaturated
- How fund partners can derisk assets in markets that traditionally have built-in risk
- The best approaches to capitalising on the anticipated demand for US corporate finance



Sean Sullivan
Managing Director and Head of Direct Lending Origination, Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Read bio
Networking break
Keynote fireside chat [English]
Panel: Recognizing the right fit - differences between US, European & APAC direct lending [English]
- Examine how global funds approach corporate lending strategies
- How will the geopolitical shifts impact each market’s competitive advantages
- Discuss which industries might benefit most from a corporate-friendly tax regime
- How will lower tax burdens impact private equity’s pursuit of NAV finance?
Networking luncheon
Panel: Key private credit strategies for Japanese investors [English]
- Discuss with global private debt leaders how they approach their niche
- Better engage with the range of strategies at play in an expanding marketplace
- An allocator’s view on what makes for an attractive manager engaging in a particular area
- The risk-reward profiles of different strategies, and the variances between the US and EU
- How the emergence of NAV finance has allowed sponsors to rapidly grow portfolio companies and develop assets
Panel: Utilising asset-based finance to rapidly develop fund's portfolio companies [English]
- Better understand the linkages between private equity and private debt
- Why providing asset-backed collateral allows private debtors to lower risk profiles
- How can ABL be used to support the growth of real assets
- Explore the markets engaging most actively with asset-based finance
Networking break
Presentation: PDI’s fundraising reports analysis [English]

Panel: Venture debt - financing the next unicorn [English]
- The reputation of Japanese investors in supporting new entrepreneurs
- Explore the underserved opportunities in global markets and where opportunity exists
- How to identify effective venture capital partners requiring finance support for their portfolios
- What demands do Japanese investors have to allay risk concerns for venture debt

Closing keynote investor panel: Why Japanese investors are growing their private debt allocations [Japanese]
- How is the present landscape impacting decision-makers’ commitment to private debt in terms of scale, strategies and sectors?
- What is the most important advice for private debt fund managers?
- What are investors’ mid-long term portfolio strategies and key focus for 2025?
Closing remarks
Cocktail reception
Agenda
PDI Tokyo Forum 2025 - Friday 27th
Registration and networking refreshments
PEI welcome
Investor keynote
Panel: Perfectly in balance - the attraction of direct lending's low-risk and evergreen returns [Japanese/ English]
- Engage with how direct lending’s need for revolving credit creates evergreen returns
- The attraction for Japanese investors for predictable cash flows
- Explore the individual benefits of sponsored versus non-sponsored deals
- Which markets are proving to have the best risk-return profiles across the direct lending landscape
Networking break
Economist keynote presentation
Panel: Global real asset debt: Accessing yield through digital infrastructure [English]
- As Artificial Intelligence markets expand, where will finance for data centres and their energy-use originate
- Which markets are providing the best access to digital infrastructure opportunities
- Better understand the intersection between real estate and digital infrastructure debt
- Why financing periphery industries is crucial to supporting the uptake of the AI industry

Closing Panel - private credit allocation and diversification [Japanese]
- Better understand how global debt funds can access a relatively untapped pool of capital
- Engage on the areas that Japanese investors are keen to develop a diversity in their portfolios
- The seal of Japanese approval – the benefit funds acquire through the rigorous due diligence of Japanese investors
- Foreign investors go-to solutions for easing entry into the Japanese market
Closing remarks
Networking luncheon
End of PDI Tokyo Forum
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.
2025 Sponsors
機関投資家参加パス申請
資産機関と機関投資家の場合、イベントに参加できる限られた無料パスが提供されます。
参加パスの対象者には財団、基金、保険会社、シングルファミリーオフィス、政府系ファンド、公的・私的年金基金を代表する方々です。
第三者による資金調達活動を行わず、助言やコンサルティングサービスに対する手数料を徴収していないことが条件となります。また、パスは主に自己勘定でファンドに投資する機関に限定されます。
以下のフォームにご申し込むと、うちのチームメンバーが参加確定のためにご連絡いたします。
日本やグローバルな上級意思決定者と会える場所
Investors at PDI Tokyo Forum
The Forum is the largest meeting place for institutional and private investors, and other members of the private debt community in Japan.
Check out the benefits of joining the conference and who among your peers you will be joining. Apply for a complimentary pass for you or your team today.
Why Tokyo Forum?
Meet the biggest global funds
Network and arrange one-to-one meetings with the biggest and leading private debt managers.
Get the latest insights
Discuss the opportunities and challenges your peers are facing in the market at the investor roundtable.
What to expect?
120+
Institutional Investors
35+
Speakers
200+
Attendees
Part of the PDI Japan Korea Week
機関投資家参加パス申請
資産機関と機関投資家の場合、イベントに参加できる限られた無料パスが提供されます。
参加パスの対象者には財団、基金、保険会社、シングルファミリーオフィス、政府系ファンド、公的・私的年金基金を代表する方々です。
第三者による資金調達活動を行わず、助言やコンサルティングサービスに対する手数料を徴収していないことが条件となります。また、パスは主に自己勘定でファンドに投資する機関に限定されます。
以下のフォームにご申し込むと、うちのチームメンバーが参加確定のためにご連絡いたします。
無料の投資家パスの対象は、財団、基金、信託、保険会社、シングルファミリーオフィス、政府系ファンド、年金基金など、ファンドへの投資を積極的に行い、第三者の資金調達活動を行わず、アドバイザリー/コンサルティングサービスで手数料を受け取らない機関投資家に限られます。
기관 투자자 참가 패스 신청
자산 배분 기관과 기관 투자자이신 경우 이벤트에 참여할 수 있는 제한된 수의 무료 패스가 제공됩니다.
참석권을 받으시려면 연금 기금, 보험 회사, 국부 펀드, 개인 자산 관리자, 재단, 기부금, 패밀리 오피스 또는 기업 투자 부서를 대표하는 자격 기준을 충족해야 합니다.
패스를 신청하시면 저희 팀원이 참가 확정 여부 확인을 위해 연락할 예정입니다.
한국 최고의 사모 대출 투자자들과 만나보세요
Investors at PDI Seoul Forum
The Forum is the largest meeting place for institutional and private investors, and other members of the private debt community in Korea.
Check out the benefits of joining the conference and who among your peers you will be joining. Apply for a complimentary pass for you or your team today.
Why Seoul Forum?
Meet the biggest global funds
Network and arrange one-to-one meetings with the biggest and leading private debt managers.
Get the latest insights
Discuss the opportunities and challenges your peers are facing in the market at the investor roundtable.
What to expect?
90+
Institutional Investors
35+
Speakers
200+
Attendees
Part of the PDI Japan Korea Week
참가패스를 신청하세요
자산 배분 기관과 기관 투자자이신 경우 이벤트에 참여할 수 있는 제한된 수의 무료 패스가 제공됩니다.
참석권을 받으시려면 연금 기금, 보험 회사, 국부 펀드, 개인 자산 관리자, 재단, 기부금, 패밀리 오피스 또는 기업 투자 부서를 대표하는 자격 기준을 충족해야 합니다.
패스를 신청하시면 저희 팀원이 참가 확정 여부 확인을 위해 연락할 예정입니다.
Contact producer, Niann Lai at Niann.l@pei.group if you’re interested in speaking at the conference.
2025 Speakers

Kevin Lawi
Managing Director, Private Credit Portfolio Manager and Head of Origination, UBS Asset Management

Yunsuk Oh
Senior Investment Manager, Alternative Investment, National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives

Eunseok (Eugene) So
Managing Director / Head of Global Alternative Investment Team, Sangsangin Investment & Securities
Contact our producer, David Stent at david.stent@pei.group if you’re interested in speaking at the conference.
2025 Speakers

Yayoi Sagae
Managing Director and Head of Alternative Investment Department, Nomura Asset Management

Sean Sullivan
Managing Director and Head of Direct Lending Origination, Morgan Stanley Investment Management
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