What Outlasts Us: Building and Investing for the Next Generation | Asia Summit 2026
It puts the case for patient, multi-generational capital and founder-outlasting institutions in front of two people who run them, which is the frame allocators use when discussing long-duration mandates with clients. Note that the published description sets out the questions the panel takes up rather than the answers given.
Summary
By the markets & outlook deskClosing plenary from the Milken Institute Asia Summit 2026: a conversation between TPG founding partner and executive chairman Jim Coulter and Jardine Matheson chief executive Lincoln Pan, moderated by CNBC anchor Sri Jegarajah. The session is framed around institution-building and long-horizon capital — what it takes to build something that outlasts a tenure, a fund or a cycle, and what obligations capital carries to the next generation. It also asks where hindsight has proved the long view wrong.
- The session asks what it takes to build an institution meant to outlive its founders.
- It considers committing capital to a transition whose returns arrive a generation from now.
- It argues such decisions cannot be modelled, back-tested or handed to a machine, and are made by people under uncertainty.
- It asks where hindsight has proved the long view wrong, and how to commit with conviction to a future you will not be there to see.
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