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Private Equity
on May 7, 2008
Reuters is reporting that China's national pension fund, the National Social Security Fund, is looking to invest up to 10% of its assets in private equity.
The fund is worth about $74 billion. S...
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on April 20, 2008
Two private equity funds, the Carlyle Group and MBK Partners, are in discussions to obtain a 25 percent stake in Sunny Bank. The small investment bank is in Taiwan. Reuters is reporting on the story. ...
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on April 19, 2008
Nanjing-based ET Solar has come up with $19 million as part of a "Series A redeemable convertible preferred share placement," According to Clean Edge News.
ET Solar is an integrated manufac...
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Private Equity
on April 18, 2008
London-based buyout firm CVC Capital has a new $4.1 billion war chest to use in Asia. It's the largest private equity fund ever raised for the Asia-Pacific region, according to PE Hub.
The fund, ...
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on April 13, 2008
Hangzhou-based C.Straits Food Chain Co. Ltd. announced last week that it has sold a 20% stake in its C.Straits Café restaurants chain in China to Goldman Sachs and Whitesun Equity Partners for $30 mil...
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on April 3, 2008
I saw a short but interesting piece in Today's Financial News (TFN) recently that proclaimed that Taiwan (not Mainland China) was the place to invest your money. The author had reasons...
First, ...
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on March 31, 2008
UK private equity firm 3i looks set to cash in on its investment two years ago in on of China's largest restaurant chains.
The restaurant chain Little Sheep looks set to float an IPO in Hong Kon...
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Private Equity
on March 16, 2008
The establishment of four new private equity funds is being worked out by the Chinese government, according to the Caijing Magazine. The decision by China's State Council would bring the total num...
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on March 15, 2008
Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia is moving into China's green energy sector in a big way.
According to the China Daily, Barring and its Mainland associate Chengwei Ventures LLC have inv...
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on March 7, 2008
With opportunities in the US thinning out a little because of the economic slow down, Baird Private Equity has become the latest PE Fund management company to look toward China for new investment opti...
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