Illiquid investors adopt measured approach in quake aftermath

The illiquid alternative investment industry in Japan is keeping its feet planted on the ground in the post-earthquake clean-up. Unlike the melee of the liquid market, with a dumping of stocks followed by a rooting around for value buys, the illiquids market is reacting in a more measured way. AsianInvestor put to CLSA Capital Partners that because of the longer term tenor of private equity deals, the implications of an exogenous event could be contained in a way that a public m…