Ping An’s Voyager brings good health to PE

The fund is deploying $1 billion of the Chinese group’s money into digital medicine and fintech around the world, but profit is not its main ambition.

Jonathan Larsen, Ping An

In the increasingly crowded field of home-grown Chinese private equity and venture capital, one member of the throng is doing its own thing. Ping An Global Voyager is a $1 billion fund whose number-one priority is not its returns. 

“I’m not going to be a very popular fellow if we don’t deliver a reasonable return on Ping An and [founder] Peter Ma’s dollars,” says Jonathan Larsen, chairman and chief executive of the fund and chief innovation officer across the whole Ping An group.

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