<article><a href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=carlyle+group">Carlyle Group</a> said on Thursday it had raised $6.6 billion for its Asia private equity fund, its biggest ever, which will seek buyout and strategic investment opportunities across a wide range of sectors in the region.</article>

<a href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=carlyle+group">Carlyle Group</a> said on Thursday it had raised $6.6 billion for its Asia private equity fund, its biggest ever, which will seek buyout and strategic investment opportunities across a wide range of sectors in the region.
The latest fund is more than Carlyle&#8217;s initial target of $5 billion and is 65 per cent bigger than its previous Asia buyout fund, said the U.S.-based private equity firm with $201 billion of assets under management globally.
Reuters reported last month, citing people with knowledge of the matter, that Carlyle had raised its Asia fundraising target following a strong response from its investors and that it was looking to close the fund at $6.5 billion.
&#8220;We expect to see more and larger investment opportunities in the region driven by innovation, attractive demographics, rising consumption and corporate spin-offs,&#8221; X.D. Yang, chairman of Carlyle Asia excluding Japan, said in a statement.
Carlyle&#8217;s existing portfolio firms in Asia range from a stake in Chinese internet giant Tencent&#8217;s e-book unit China Literature to Metropolis Healthcare, an India-based global operator of pathology laboratories.
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Carlyle Group raised $6.6 billion for Asia PE fund, biggest ever, which will seek buyout & strategic investment opportunities across wide range of sectors in region.

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