SuperReturn Asia 2026
SuperReturn Asia 2026, Informa Connect’s premier Asia-Pacific private capital conference, took place at Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre in Singapore from 28 September to 1 October 2026. The event gathered approximately 2,500 senior leaders from private markets across over 50 countries, including more than 1,200 LPs with around US$20 trillion in AUM and over 1,000 GPs.
The four-day conference featured a specialist-summit day followed by a three-day main program. It focused on fostering relationships and providing deal-flow insights rather than making public deal announcements, with many pre-scheduled LP–GP meetings, private sessions, and networking opportunities.
28 September — Specialist Summits Day: Seven parallel tracks addressed topics such as venture capital, AI and deep tech, country-specific strategies, LP/GP relations and fundraising, private credit, private wealth, and energy and infrastructure.
29 September–1 October — Main Conference: Sessions covered areas like private equity, venture capital, private credit, secondaries and liquidity solutions, infrastructure, private wealth, and AI/deep tech.
Co-located Events: SuperReturn CFO/COO Asia and FundForum Asia were held on 29–30 September, while SuperReturn Family Office Asia took place on 30 September; these events required separate access but expanded the senior audience.
Networking: The event featured LP-only sessions, hosted meals, an emerging-managers showcase, a women-in-private-markets lunch, rooftop receptions, and an AI-powered quickfire meeting program, SuperReturn Allocate.
The attendees included both global and Asian allocators along with international and regional GPs, establishing the event as a key annual platform for cross-border fundraising and Asia allocation decisions.
Group | Corporates, Family Offices, SWF and Funds, Banks, Representatives |
Sovereign and institutional LPs | GIC, Temasek, Mubadala, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Asia, OMERS Asia, IFC, Asian Development Bank, PGGM, Novo Holdings, Korea Investment Corporation myaccount. |
GPs and asset managers | BlackRock, EQT, KKR, Bain Capital, Bridgepoint, Partners Group, Thoma Bravo, Macquarie Asset Management, Man Group, Granite Asia |
Other participants | Family offices, private banks, fund-of-funds, infrastructure investors, advisers, banks, legal and operating-partner ecosystems |
Major Themes
AI, Compute, and Infrastructure
AI has transitioned from a sector-specific theme to a cross-asset investment issue, focusing on where sustainable value lies across energy, data centers, semiconductors, frontier labs, applications, and private-market portfolios. Discussions emphasized the importance of valuation discipline and avoiding excessive exposure to AI narratives.
Data-center capacity was a significant topic. Panelists noted that not all announced capacity will be constructed or economically feasible due to constraints in power, grids, permitting, equipment, and project economics; the shift from AI training to inference also boosts the demand for computing closer to users.
Private Credit and Liquidity
Private credit discussions centered on spread compression, the pursuit of differentiated underwriting and financing structures, and the role of alternative financing in a tighter return environment. Venture secondaries are increasingly seen as a strategic liquidity and portfolio-management tool rather than just a niche exit route.
Asia’s Differentiated Markets
Instead of viewing Asia as a single market, the program highlighted country-specific opportunities:
China: RMB versus USD fund dynamics, secondary activity, and the cautious return of foreign LP capital.
India: Growth equity, deeptech, and an IPO-led exit cycle.
Japan: Structural tailwinds, carve-outs, and management buyouts.
Korea: Growing institutional outbound capital and domestic mid-market opportunities.
Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Thailand are increasingly viewed as a connected regional opportunity set.
Australia and New Zealand: The role of superannuation funds as major private-markets allocators.
Private Wealth and Succession
Private wealth was a dedicated summit track, reflecting the growing role of family offices and private banking in Asian private markets. Discussions on succession, GP stakes, and long-term partnerships emphasized durable alignment through transparency, structure, and shared ownership.
Singapore Policy Announcements
The most significant public policy moment came during the keynote by Chee Hong Tat, Minister for National Development and Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, on 29 September. He positioned Singapore as a trusted hub connecting global capital with Asian growth opportunities, citing nearly S$7 trillion in assets managed by over 1,300 asset managers in the country.
Asset-Management Competitiveness
Singapore announced or reiterated measures to strengthen its asset-management hub position:
A tax exemption for profit-related returns from fund-management services to qualifying funds, expected to take effect from the Year of Assessment 2027 and covering 2026 income.
Faster fund-management licensing: MAS received over 500 license applications over three years, with a median approval time of four and a half months in Q2 2026.
A new Investment Management Track under the ONE Pass, starting in late January 2027, allowing qualifying salary to combine a minimum S$15,000 fixed monthly salary with variable compensation.
Support for senior investment leaders seeking permanent residency through the Global Investor Programme.
Growth-Capital Ecosystem
Minister Chee outlined three priorities from Singapore’s Growth Capital Workgroup: supporting companies across growth stages, broadening exits and capital recycling, and deepening capabilities across the financing chain. Potential measures include incentives, seed funding, risk-sharing arrangements, stronger intermediaries, and more risk-sensitive insurer capital requirements for infrastructure and securitization assets.
Equities-Market Measures
MAS also announced the third batch of five managers under the Equity Market Development Programme (EQDP)—Amundi, Franklin Templeton, HSBC Asset Management, M&G Investments, and Natixis Investment Managers—with S$1.45 billion allocated. This brings total EQDP allocations to S$5.4 billion under an expanded S$6.5 billion programme.
It also introduced a S$20 million GEMS Market Making Grant to improve liquidity, execution quality, and institutional-grade stock coverage, expected to benefit around 80 non-STI stocks.
SuperReturn Asia 2026 reinforced Singapore’s role as Asia’s principal private-capital meeting point. The event’s practical focus was on navigating a more selective fundraising environment, finding liquidity through secondaries and credit structures, realistically underwriting AI and infrastructure, and identifying country-specific opportunities across China, India, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and Australia.
The Summit highlighted the potential value lying less in headline deal announcements and more in concentrated access to allocators, fund managers, and policy leaders—along with Singapore’s announced push to deepen growth capital, exits, public-market liquidity, and asset-management talent.
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