Panel Discussion: Unlocking Access: How Asia is Opening the Doors to Private Markets
Sanket Sinha, MD & CEO Global Asset Management at Lighthouse Canton, will be taking the stage at the FT Live Future of Asset Management Asia 2026 on 6th May, joining a panel of senior industry leaders to explore how Asia's private markets are evolving and what it takes to navigate them with conviction.
With Asia's private AUM surpassing $3 trillion in 2025 and outpacing growth in other global markets, the region is at the centre of a structural shift. Policy initiatives such as Japan's NISA programme, Singapore's LIF framework, and Hong Kong's SFC circular on the listing of private market funds are opening access to retail investors at an unprecedented pace. This panel will explore where the real opportunity lies for asset manager in Asia.
The panel will discuss:
- Why Asia remains underrepresented in private markets relative to its growth potential, and what can be done to unlock it?
- How are regulators adapting to the expansion of private markets and aligning new rules with frameworks such as NISA and LIF?
- Whether concerns over potential bubbles in data centres, private credit, and commercial real estate signal that it is too late to access these markets?
- Next-generation plays shaping the growth of private assets in the new market cycle
- What the democratisation of private markets will look like by 2030, and the strategies asset managers can implement to get ahead
Speakers
- Sanket Sinha, MD & CEO, Global Asset Management, Lighthouse Canton
- Eugenie Shen, Managing Director & Head of Asset Management, Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association
- Kerrine Koh, Managing Director, Head of Southeast Asia, Hamilton Lane
- Fiona Cho, APAC COO and Senior Portfolio Manager for Real Estate, PGIM
Moderator: Arjun Neil Alim, Asia Financial Correspondent, Financial Times
Event Details:
Summit: FT Live Future of Asset Management Asia 2026
Dates: 6th May 2026
Location: Park Royal Marina Bay, Singapore
