Asia is best hope for private equity’s growth

Private-equity funds in Asia will experience better growth than their counterparts in Europe, and possibly also better than in the United States, thanks to a very different approach to regulation. So concludes a report by New York-based financial IT consultancy Celent, which documents how regulation in the US and Europe has compressed fees, changed funds’ capital structure and continues to drive industry restructuring. Anshuman Jaswal, the report's author and a senior analyst at…