Workshop Outline

8.30am

REGISTRATION OPEN
RACV City Club Melbourne

9.00am

WELCOME
Tim Townsend
Partner & Private Wealth Adviser, Townsend Cobain Partners

James Weir

Director & Private Wealth Adviser, Steward Wealth

9.15am

ON THE GROUND

A Dealmaker's View of Private Equity in 2026

Alexander Roso - Managing Director, Warburg Pincus (Represented by Continental Funds Group)

10.35am

THE OTHER PRIVATE CREDIT

Asset-Backed and Specialty Lending: Where Risk and Return Actually Come From

Guy Kaufman - Managing Director, Head of Investments, MA Financial Group

11.35am

BUYING SECOND-HAND

The Secondaries Market: Why It Exists, How Deals Get Done, and Whether Now Is the Time to Buy

John Lee - Partner, Lexington Partners (Represented by Franklin Templeton)

1.40pm

GLOBAL BY DESIGN

Building a Private Credit Allocation Beyond Australian Shores

Nehemiah Richardson - CEO, Pengana Credit

2.30pm

POWERING THE DECADE
Private Infrastructure and the Constraints on the Digital Build-Out

Chloe Berry - Managing Partner, Infrastructure, Brookfield

Martin Langham - Senior Consultant, Frontier Advisors

3.45pm

FROM ALLOCATION TO IMPLEMENTATION

Sizing, Structuring and Managing a Private Markets Allocation

Jonathan Ng - Partner, BNV Investment Partners

Andrew Yap - Head of Portfolio Solutions, Zenith Investment Partners

Tim Farrelly - Co-CIO, Delta Portfolios

4.45-5.45pm

NETWORKING SESSION
RACV City Club Melbourne