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on March 2, 2008
Private equity firm Blue Ridge is moving into China in a big way. The company has developed a China-focused fund that is about twice the size of what JP Morgan is commiting at the moment to the whole ...
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on February 28, 2008
With private equity markets in the US slowing down, JP Morgan is the latest major player to look elsewhere for action. The company has set aside $750 million in a new fund focused on asia.
According ...
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on February 26, 2008
Hong Kong-based private equity firm orchid Asia Group Management Ltd. has closed its fourth private equity fund focused on China, according to a press release from the company last week. The new fund ...
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on February 8, 2008
Goldman Sachs and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Temasek Holdings, are among the investors in a new $2 billion private equity fund that will focus on China.
The new fund, called the Hopu Fund...
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on February 7, 2008
While the Chinese are evidently still bullish on China, the Sydney Morning Herald is among a number of sources that published a report last month saying that multinational investors were cutting back ...
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on January 29, 2008
Alex Akesson across the hall from me here at Creative Weblogging tells me that Swiss banking group SYZ & CO, has "launched six new sub-funds of its $1.3bn Luxembourg-domiciled umbrella fund S...
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on January 28, 2008
The possibility of more relaxed trade between Mainland China and Taiwan has become a topic of conversation in the wake of an election in Taiwan that Kuomintang (KMT) party control of the legislature t...
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on January 26, 2008
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Temasek Holdings, has partnered with two Canadian pension funds to create "a high-profile private equity fund looking to invest in China," according to...
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on January 22, 2008
I've seen it discussed in a number of places recently. There are some basic truths about Foreign direct investment that seem to get covered up, misinterpreted, distorted - pick your adjective...
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on December 16, 2007
The Times Online says it's bingo!
Gala Coral, a British gambling operator backed by private equity funds, has managed to get a license to operate a bingo club in Hebei Province in China.
It&#...
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on December 9, 2007
Private equity firms Hikari Private Equity and Susquehanna International Group China have invested $20 million in the video sharing site 56.com, according to Personal Bee.
Several other partners we...
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on November 24, 2007
After making its debut investment earlier this month in a basic industrial sector of the Chinese economy, China's first home grown private equity fund is continuing to take a different path than f...
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on November 13, 2007
Forbes published a report recently saying that private equity continues to face hurdles in China.
China's private equity industry is in a state of change and is experiencing growth. We reported e...
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on November 3, 2007
Bohai Industrial investment fund, China's first Western-styled private equity fund, made its debut investment Friday. Where did the money go? Not to the tech sector or to clean energy. Not into th...
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on September 22, 2007
Asia Pulse is among a number of sources following the growing involvement of foreign private equity (FPE) in China's real estate market.
The venture capital company Zero2IPO is suggesting three ...
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on September 9, 2007
After almost four years in Shanghai, the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges finally looks set to open a Hong Kong office next month. The opening will make Weil the last of New York City's five...
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on July 25, 2007
With data dripping in for the second quarter of the year, a flurry of reports on the status of private equity in China seems to show mixed results.
Kate Zhao at China Digital Times points to a Financ...
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on January 5, 2007
Fellow blogger, Rex Dixon reports that Google will partner with Shanghai-based venture capital firm Ceyuan Ventures to invest in Chinese download accelerator and peer-to-peer file sharing network oper...
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on July 24, 2006
In the Emerging Markets Private Equity newsletter, there's an excellent overview and report on China's private equity market. The editor writes, " the dynamics of China's private equi...
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on May 18, 2006
Fortune magazine has recently reported that the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China is more than satisfying the enormous appetites of investment banks lining up at the trough to get a huge slice...
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on May 15, 2006
According to a recent article in the Financial Times, the average size of initial public offerings in Greater China has overtaken levels in the US and Europe for the first time, mainly due to the numb...
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on April 24, 2006
In the wake of President Hu Jintao's visit with Yale University's President Richard Levin last Friday, it's noteworthy that China had recently authorized the distinguished university's...
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on March 8, 2006
Focus Media remains the darling of analysts and finance bloggers in China. The high flying advertising company manages a network of flat-panel television displays in high traffic areas, such as in the...
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on March 2, 2006
Although there has been a paucity of recent deals from the European investment community into China, London Asia Capital's co-founders, Victor Ng and Simon Littlefield have recently entered into b...
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on February 7, 2006
According to Analysis International's senior New Media analyst, Fu Xinghua, Paris based
Meetic.com, Europe's leading Web matchmaker has made a $20 million investment in eFriendsNet or China&#...
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on January 18, 2006
Vincent Pun, the senior manager for research at the Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ), published from Hong Kong, and regarded as one of the leading publications on private equity and venture capita...
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on January 17, 2006
The pressure to jump on the Beijing bandwagon has new media Internet firms trying to find a niche in the information feeding frenzy targeting global private equity investors. Phil (Ming) Lu, CEO of Wo...
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on December 21, 2005
Beijing Technology and Business University (BTBU) issued the "International Trade Investment Risks Index" (ITIRI) and China is among the list of 10 countries and regions with the lowest inve...
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on December 20, 2005
CVN has a follow-up to yesterday's post, about Ritchie Capital, a diversified alternative asset management firm's appoitnment of Harjit Bhatia as Chief Executive Officer, Ritchie Capital Advis...
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on December 19, 2005
According to Hong Kong based, Asia Finance magazine, Harjit Bhatia, a ex-GE exec will spearhead Ritchie Capital business for China, Japan and Australia. This is just further confirmation that China in...
