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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...