Asante Market Pulse – Winter 2023

Asante would like to thank all of you who took the time to complete the Asante Winter Survey, which has resulted in Asante donating a record sum to our partners at the Asante Africa Foundation. The foundation has positively impacted over 840,000 lives in East Africa, striving to empower the region’s youth by providing education programs and scholarships to the leaders of the future.

This 2023 Asante Winter LP Survey reflects a shift in investors’ sentiment as a fall in public markets reducing investors allocations for private assets. There were a host of “fear factors” that drove LPs’ slowdown from investing in private markets in 2022.

Asante Capital Solutions – Q3 2022 Newsletter

The secondaries market is fast becoming a core pillar of the private equity landscape despite its humble origins as an ultra-niche market for LPs seeking liquidity. In today’s newsletter we’re diving into ‘GP-Led Secondaries: Fundraising Friend of For?

Asante Capital Solutions – Q4 2020 Newsletter

Looking ahead to 2021, with much of the practical and portfolio adjustments already made this year, we feel cautiously optimistic that both GPs and LPs are increasingly well-equipped to successfully navigate further market volatility as they focus on their fundraising and capital allocation objectives.

So you’re thinking of spinning out?

“First time funds coming to market now have an even higher bar to clear, yet there will continue to be successful new managers in today’s environment where they can evidence differentiated attributes and the ability to have generated outperformance historically.”